Iran Woman's Stoning Suspended After International Outcry
DirtySanchez
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Iran has backed down over plans to stone to death a woman charged with adultery after an international outcry.
The Islamic republic's London embassy said in a statement that "according to information from the relevant judicial authorities in Iran" Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani "will not be executed by stoning".
However, there are still fears that Ms Ashtiani, a mother-of-two, could be put to death by other means after she was found guilty of an affair while she was married.
Her lawyer Mohammed Mostafaei told The Times: "This is a positive development but nothing is clear yet. There have been cases in Iran of stonings being changed to hangings. We have to wait and see what happens."
His client, 43, has already received 99 lashes in mid-2006 after she was convicted of an "illicit relationship" with two men after her husband's death, according to Human Rights Watch.
Later that year she was put on trial again for "adultery while being married", during which Ms Ashtiani said she was forced to make a confession under duress. In 2007, Iran's Supreme Court confirmed her execution and the woman has since exhausted all her appeals. She is currently imprisoned in the city of Tabriz.
Ms Ashtiani's 22-year-old son Sajjad has sent an open letter to former political activist Mina Ahadi and other anti-capital punishment campaigners.
"I ask you to send the letter of my mother's pardon to Tabriz and return my mother's life back to her. I hope that you see to it that justice in my mother's case prevails," he said.
"My mother is in a bad psychological state, and in five whole years has been imprisoned without a day of (leave from the prison)."
He told how he has appealed dozens of times to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and judicial chief Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani.
Foreign Office minister Alistair Burt has condemned stoning as "a medieval punishment that has no place in the modern world".
He said in a statement: "The continued use of such a punishment in Iran demonstrates a blatant disregard for international human rights commitments which it has entered into freely, as well as the interests of its people.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/09/08/iran-womans-stoning-suspended-international-outcry/
I hate how the USA and the UN have to always get involved where they dont belong. Wether or not this execution is correct doesn't matter. Iran is a sovereign nation and we shouldn't be involved imo.
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Iran isn't as bad as ZOG makes them out to be. They get all this focus because there one of the few country's standing up against Israel. That's why I guarantee you they get attacked within a year or two. Sure there backwards but it's not the international community's business imo. It's like how nobody can have nukes if the US says no even though were the only country to ever use a nuke.
That's what I meant.
Shit Saudi Arabia still uses Crucifixion as a punishment:eek: So does Sudan.
Yeah usually the really fucked up shit goes on in places where no one is watching. What is going on in some African countries right now is really appalling, this is where we should be pointing the spotlight.
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/09/03/zambia-police-brutality-torture-rife
Damn I just got done with that article. It's some fucked up shit. The shit that goes on daily over there is brutality we cant imagine here in the west yet Iran gets attention for standing up to ZOG. I encourage you to read up on Liberia right now. Civil war, torture cannibalism all that goes on every day. I'd say Liberia and the Congo are easily to of the most savage places in Africa.