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Iranian mother of two to be stoned to death

POSTED BY: Niki2
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NIKI2

Monday, July 5, 2010 6:07 PM

Fucking Iran!

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An Iranian human rights activist warns Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani, a mother of two, could be stoned to death at any moment under the terms of a death sentence handed down by Iranian authorities.

Ashtiani, 42, will be buried up to her chest, according to an Amnesty International report citing the Iranian penal code. The stones that will be hurled at her will be large enough to cause pain but not so large as to kill her immediately.

Ashtiani, who is from the northern city of Tabriz, was convicted of adultery in 2006.

She was forced to confess after being subjected to 99 lashes, human rights lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei said Thursday in a telephone interview from Tehran.

She later retracted that confession and has denied wrongdoing. Her conviction was based not on evidence but on the determination of three out of five judges, Mostafaei said. She has asked forgiveness from the court but the judges refused to grant clemency.

The circumstances of Ashtiani's case make it not an exception but the rule in Iran, according to Amnesty International, which tracks death penalty cases around the world.

"The majority of those sentenced to death by stoning are women, who suffer disproportionately from such punishment," the human rights group said in a 2008 report.

Article 74 of the Iranian penal code requires at least four witnesses -- four men or three men and two women -- for an adulterer to receive a stoning sentence, said Ahadi, of the International Committee Against Stoning. But there were no witnesses in Ashtiani's case. Often, said Ahadi, husbands turn wives in to get out of a marriage.

The public won't be allowed to witness the stoning, for fear of condemnation of such a brutal method. He is hoping there won't be an execution.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/07/05/iran.stoning/index.html?vide
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Activist groups are trying to bring pressure to bear on the Iranian government to not only avoid stoning her, but to abolish stoning, arguing that women are not treated equally before the law in Iran and are especially vulnerable in the judicial system. A woman's testimony is worth half that of a man, they say.

Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
signing off

SIGNYM

Monday, July 5, 2010 6:32 PM

Horrible. Just horrible.

PIRATENEWS

Monday, July 5, 2010 7:24 PM

In USA we just shoot wives for adultery. Or stab them. Or poison them. Or run them over with cars. Or kill all their coworkers and family.

That's progress!

AURAPTOR

Monday, July 5, 2010 7:33 PM

This, while Naomi Wolfe speaks of the FREEDOM women find in the hijab. ( http://www.smh.com.au/cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articl
es/2008/08/29/1219516734637.html )

Yeah, right. Free to leave this world by way of state sponsored stoning.

*edit* I was so hoping Chrisisall had posted that Jessica Alba pic.

NIKI2

Monday, July 5, 2010 7:47 PM

The "difference", if I want to sound as silly as you do, PN, is that over HERE, women can do the same. Fair is fair, so to speak...

Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
signing off

FREMDFIRMA

Monday, July 5, 2010 10:02 PM

Ever find yourself between a rock and a hard place ?
I support RAWA despite their lack of militancy, and you might have noted me mentioning the NFA (New Feyadeen Army) before as a non-affiliated group of female hardliners who basically wanna kill all the men, and seem to be doin a right dandy job of it by managing to do so without ever coming into contact or conflict with US forces...

And worse, *SOMEONE* is supporting them financially and materially, someone who can afford Hughes MD500 choppers configured for long range hit-n-run operations, cause that's a whole different scale than a box of AK47s.

Problem is, I don't think a radical matriarchy is all that good an answer, myself, but still it's hard *not* to have sympathy for em when I see shit like this.

Of course, if they wanted to "buy" some legitimacy cred, hitting stuff like this might do it, but given their preferred tactic seems to be the slaughter of every male over ten within sight, not sure how that would exactly help matters...

I'll stick with RAWA, thanks, but I cannot claim to not feel a grim, bitter pang of satisfaction when the NFA mows down a bunch of fundamentalist dickheads, no.

-Frem

I do not serve the Blind God.

DREAMTROVE

Monday, July 5, 2010 10:22 PM

Something is very wrong with this story.

Iranians are Shiia, and don't practice Sharia law, and also, Iran is a civilized country.

Okay, I did a little digging. This is in NW Iran, in former Azerbaizhan. There might be some Sunnis there. Its a local judge, and he avoided process of law to choose an archaic form of punishment. She is accused of killing her husband, not adultery, but in a court case this fucked up, nothing is really credible.

My first guess would be that there are probably people in that corner of the govt. who would love to see us invade, which is of course the point of the story.

It's worth noting that many such stories that we heard in regards to Iraq and Afghanistan turned out to be completely fabricated, which I'm not suggesting this is, but it does look like a set up.

Also, it's worthy of note that such stories were part of the rationale used to obtain support for what is now the current US policy towards those two nations, a policy, which as John rightly points out, has killed twice as many people as Auschwitz.

Jes Sayin', before we run off half cocked.

KWICKO

Monday, July 5, 2010 11:43 PM

Here in the U.S., we would NEVER use state-sponsored torture do kill someone.

Oh. Never mind. We do that, too.

Congratulations - Iran's legal system is now as bad as America's!

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Go fuck yourself.
On this matter, make no mistake. I want you to go fuck yourself long and hard, as well as anyone who agrees with you. I got no use for you.

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Mr. President, you're a god damn, mother fucking liar.
Fuck you, you cock sucking community activist piece of shit.
... go fuck yourself, Mr. President.

MINCINGBEAST

Tuesday, July 6, 2010 12:18 AM

You are all being ethnocentric, and totally disrespecting Iran's rich and beautiful culture.

PIRATENEWS

Tuesday, July 6, 2010 2:07 AM

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Originally posted by dreamtrove:

Okay, I did a little digging. She is accused of killing her husband, not adultery...

So that's exactly like capitol punishment in USA. Except with less taxation.

I've got a great idea...let's nuke Iran kill millions of innocent people and start World War 3!