Iran halts Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani death by stoning

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UPDATE SEP 6:--Confusing reports are emerging from Prison that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani has been whipped.
A 43-year-old Iranian woman will not be stoned to death after an international campaign launched by her children.

It is unclear whether the authorities have lifted the death sentence for alleged adultery against Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani or if she faces execution by another means.

Mohammadi Ashtiani endured a sentence of 99 lashes after being convicted in May 2006 of conducting an "illicit relationship outside marriage". But her case was reopened when a court in Tabriz suspected her of murdering her husband.

She was acquitted, but the adultery charge was reviewed and a death penalty handed down on the basis of "judge's knowledge" -- a loophole that allows for subjective judicial rulings where no conclusive evidence is present.

Her case has highlighted the growing use of the death penalty in a country that has executed more than 100 people this year.

Her son Sajad, 22, and daughter Farideh, 17, told the Guardian their mother had been unjustly accused and punished for something she did not do, prompting international appeals for the death sentence to be lifted.

Under Iranian sharia law, the sentenced individual is buried up to the neck (or to the waist in the case of men), and those attending the public execution are called upon to throw stones. If the convicted person manages to free themselves from the hole, the death sentence is commuted.

Iran, embarrassed by the international attention over stonings, has rarely practised it in public in recent years. The country executed 388 people last year -- more than any other country apart from China, according to Amnesty International. Most are hanged.

Mina Ahadi, a human rights activist in Germany who helped Mohammadi Ashtiani's children launch their campaign internationally, says she is aware of 12 other women in Iran who face death by stoning.

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[ERBITONE]

I LOVE IRAN.

LIVING PRESIDENT OF IRAN.

VIVA SAKINEH MAHAMMADI

BRAVOOOOOOOOOO

[SuperFeimer]

@Zakah1 Religion causes all the shit in this world

[MuellerSebastian92]

@storekeeper80 ok at least you are not a christian fundamentalist or something like that. I personally do not believe in any god but i respect everyone who does. the thing about the bible or koran is: these are books thousands of years old. and even if you believe in god, you would have to be stupid to think that these books stem from god. they are written by the people of this time. nowadays all you can do is get the basic idea out of it and dont take everything verbatim.

[Victory4people]

@storekeeper80 Well I live in a country where we don't have the death penalty either, and I must say that for child rapists, and people like Andes Breivik the only good punishment is the death penalty. Society must be protected from these idiots. Of course the ideal world is a world where there would not be any need for such punishments.

[storekeeper80]

@Victory4people The World doesn't need to accept capital punishment at all. We can all work to force the few nations that still retain it to ban it for all time. Most civilised nations do not carry out capital punishment. I'm not in the USA and I can tell you that in Australia she would not be killed for what she has reportedly done and I'm glad that I live in a civilised country that does not kill its citizens as punishment.

[Victory4people]

@storekeeper80 Well she was convicted for murder and sentenced to death by hanging(qatl-e-amnd) by Iran's judiciary. For adultery she was sentenced to stoning. Yesterday the Islamic Republic said that she will probably be hangen and not stoned to death. This means that she will get the exact punishment that she would get in the USA. If someone kills someone death is the legal punishment in Iran, and the world needs to accept this.

[storekeeper80]

@MuellerSebastian92 but it is disgusting that any religion has a "holy" book, written by retarded men that even considers punishment like that. I don't condemn people who follow those religions, but I condemn the religions themselves. They should re-write their horror stories that are unfit for children to read. While those wrods are there, some people will obey them.

[storekeeper80]

@Victory4people yeah, USA states that execute are no better than Iran. No civilised country has executions any more.

She was acquitted of murder, the death sentence is for adultery.

[Victory4people]

This women murdered her husband. If she did this in the USA she would get the chair.

[DawnOfTheDead991]

@MuellerSebastian92 Trouble is, Islam appears to have most of the world's share of these kind of barbarity

[DawnOfTheDead991]

Now they want to hang her. Irano-vermin

[MuellerSebastian92]

@retardomohammed it is retarded and narrow minded to condemn a whole religion because of something like that. not every muslim follows the koran word by word. just like most christians do not so with the bible. according to the bible a girl who has sex before marriage has to be killed.