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Sakine Mohammadi Ashtiani Sentenced to Death by Stoning in Iran
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by Amy Judd | July 5, 2010 at 11:07 am
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An International Movement to Save Sakine Mohammadi Ashtiani From Death By Stoning in Iran Has Been Launched
She reportedly confessed to the crime of adultery after suffering 99 lashes and now, Sakine Mohammadi Ashtiani, a mother of two living in Iran, could be buried up to her chest and stoned to death.
Mina Ahadi, head of the International Committee Against Stoning and the Death Penalty, says that only an international movement to raise awareness can save the woman now as her sentence has already been handed down.
She was convicted of adultery in 2006 in the northern city of Tabriz, and although she confessed after being whipped, her lawyer told CNN that she then retracted that confession and denied any adulterous act. The ruling was upheld in 2007 by Iran's supreme court.
Amnesty International has now become involved, placing a call to the Iranian government to halt the execution.
"The organization is also urging the authorities to review and repeal death penalty laws, to disclose full details of all death sentences and executions and to join the growing international trend towards abolition,"
Washington has condemned the ruling, and although she has been in prison for a number of years now, her case is gaining more international attention and those fighting on her behalf hope that means she will soon be released from prison and set free of all charges.
On July 1, Stop Stoning Now released a letter saying that the verdict against Sakine Mohammadi Ashtiani should be discarded, and that stoning is a 'savage and merciless form of execution'.
We strongly condemn the Islamic Republic for its barbaric implementation of stoning, execution and torture and its enforcement of Qesas laws. We call upon all international institutions as well as the United Nation and the European Union to strongly condemn the Islamic Republic and demand that Sakine Mohammadi Ashtiani’s stoning verdict be overturned, as well as the verdicts of all others condemned to stoning and execution.
They also call for Iran's leaders to be prosecuted and punished in an international court for allowing tens of thousands of people to be stoned to death and executed.
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at 14:23 on July 5th, 2010
NO NO NO NO - THIS IS BARBARIC - PLEASE, PLEASE UNITED NATIONS - PLEASE INTERVENE BEFORE SAKINE MOHAMMADI ASHTIANI MEETS THIS HIDEOUS DEATH FOR IF YOU DO NOT STOP THIS EXECUTION AND DEMAND SAKINE'S FREEDOM - YOU WILL FOREVER HAVE HER BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS - EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU MEMBERS.
at 15:13 on July 5th, 2010
Obama needs to speak up against this. You're right, the whole UN does. Does anyone know an organization I can join to help stop this?
at 09:23 on July 7th, 2010
Please sign this petition to urge stop this. Thanks
at 09:24 on July 7th, 2010
Please sign this petition to urge stop this. Thanks www.thepetitionsite.com/1/help-sakine-mohammadi-e-ashtiani-live
at 10:37 on July 8th, 2010
For Gods sake and every other religion in the world, do not execute this poor woman. How can a stoning even be considered? Everyone regardless of colour, religion or creed please pray to YOUR GOD to prevent this barbaric thing happening. x
at 09:26 on July 7th, 2010
Please sign this petition to urge stop this. www.thepetitionsite.com/1/help-sakine-mohammadi-e-ashtiani-live
at 03:56 on July 6th, 2010
In order for this law to used on the Iranian people, the people themselves must agree with it and support it. Only the people of Iran can stop this kind of brutality, otherwise they must be held as complicent in the act it self. This woman will die along with countless of others, this is the price a country must pay until it rises up and chooses a better life for its people. This is an old and backward place, where only the strong survive and the weak must obey and suffer. There is no place in our world for them. Build a wall around the entire region and let them devour themselves.
at 05:06 on July 6th, 2010
this woman confessed to adultery after 99 lashes? what more proof do you people need? if she was innocent she wouldn't have confessed until she broke 100. stone her as a lesson to all women that numbers count.
at 14:18 on July 6th, 2010
You ignorant fool. The 99 lashes *was* her punishment. If your intent was to stir up emotion, then your cruel statement worked. I would like to see how you would hold up after 99 lashes that tear and shred your flesh and see that you don't admit to doing what they accuse you of, no matter what it was they accused you of. Heartless person; that you would take the preciousness of life so lightly and play God; you're on the same level as these people govern this country. You should be ashamed of yourself.
at 09:35 on July 7th, 2010
You heartless prick! It's people like you that makes this world sick. You don't deserve to live.. Pray that I never ever meet you in Person.. You will regret that you ever wrote something like that for a Girl/Daughter/Mother..
at 10:15 on July 7th, 2010
nice emotional rant. to bad you can't read more than you want to see. to really see would not give you excuse to bad talk which you like better. 99 lashes justify confession? maybe higher number mean innocent? see??? no excuse for stupid language for lack of understanding instead reflex emotion outburst rule intellect.
at 15:14 on July 8th, 2010
I feel really sorry for you.... judging by your serious lack of understanding of the English language and your seriously warped sense of reality, its easy for the rest of us to see that you are fkn serious moron with an IQ half that of a bohemian fruit fly!! I'm not sure if you should stop sucking gas to come back to earth or if some one should shove a methane tube up your wazzoo then light a match and just get rid of you. Idiot!!
at 11:05 on July 7th, 2010
Apparently your blatant sarcasm was lost on these simpletons. We have no business interfering in the internal politics of a sovereign nation, just as we would be seriously and rightly alarmed if the UN attempted to impose police state rule upon us. This rules out dictating compassion to these savages; it does not rule out blowing their criminal regime to Paradise. I would accept a UN coalition agreeing to do this before I would accept UN authority over the Constitution. Too bad the last gang of corporate criminals in The Whorehouse, protected by the current corporate frontmen eliminates our moral high ground to charge any rogue state with crimes against humanity.
at 12:37 on July 7th, 2010
This is twisted. You would overthrow a regime and kill many innocents over this one despicable act? I think not. Besides, what the Israeli jews have done to the indigenous Palestinians for 60+ years is exponentially worse, more like the atrocities they accuse the Germans of than the atrocities perpetrated on the natives of North and South America by Europeans. Israel's dominant role in the international drug and weapons trades as well as their future goals makes them a far more disgusting and worthy target for a UN coalition.
at 05:58 on July 6th, 2010
This is the most disturbing thing I have ever heard of. She was tortured and made to confess and now she must also die. What kind og God would support this kind of barbaric bahaviour? I know my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ would not. The United Nations needs to step in and make she that she does not die. I agree with David A a wall needs to be built around the entire region and let them devour themselves.
at 07:13 on July 6th, 2010
I can't believe monsters still existed like this but I guess they do. You'd think she had murdered somebody or worse. Grow up Iran! Otherwise, I suggest your country be left out in the cold because your ways are unfit for a human being.
at 14:09 on July 7th, 2010
We need to support the people of Iran. Where was the press after the initial protests last year, where were the big news stations after Neda was murdered, her bleeding body splattered all over YouTube.Where were you armchair war strategists when that happened?What did YOU do to support the new Iranian revolution to help THEM free themselves and overthrow this corrupt government.People in Iran want freedom. Why do you fail them? We fail Palestine, we failed the Afghans, ESPECIALLY the women, and we're failing Iranian civilians.@Dave - old backwards place? You do not even know what you are talking about. People in the metro areas are modern young people who want a better life. Many of them have since been executed, simply for being on the streets during the protests. DO something, instead of just sitting here , making fun of them or a woman who is about to die a very cruel death.@AM - sarcasm maybe, but you failed to include some wit. Which is why it went straight over everyone's head.You guys are disgusting.
at 18:20 on July 7th, 2010
So I beg the question: What is the punishment of "men" that stray from the wife? He probably gets "stoned" on opium and receives a pat on the back.
at 06:40 on July 8th, 2010
If Iran does this, I call upon the people of every city on earth where there is an Iranian embassy or consulate to stone it. Destroy it.
at 10:24 on July 8th, 2010
Dear God, PLEASE prevent this barbaric act. Can't believe these people are so wicked. Everyone pray. x
at 21:49 on July 8th, 2010
shes was just behaving like an american, woohoo sex in tha city , dont stone her just exile her to N.Y. were she will fit .
at 20:40 on August 1st, 2010
Any decent being will feel more at home in NYC. Let the rest hump goats; they don't deserve any better.
at 07:12 on September 27th, 2010
u a-hole hw dare u say abt a lady like dat bastard
at 22:05 on July 8th, 2010
okay people this woman is an extremely poor woman which have already stoneed by those horrible people out there so please sign in for petition i am really crying kill the president of iran he is a terrible beast president for iran protest now for horrible president of IRAN
at 23:12 on July 8th, 2010
that is great when i see all these people asking to stop stoning this woman i agree as well, but please also speak up when innocent people get killed in Afghanistan and Iraq plus other places like plastain. they are also human being. if you really speak for human right.
at 07:15 on September 27th, 2010
dats rite y dont u guys speak up for the palestinians who suffer ?y dont ur eyes wet wen u hear abt dem?y do u jst shut up instead of keepin quite?is it b coz the ones suffering r muslims nd the ones making to suffer r bloody israelis?
at 07:17 on September 27th, 2010
dats rite y dont u guys speak up for the palestinians who suffer ?y dont ur eyes wet wen u hear abt dem?y do u jst shut up instead of keepin quite?is it b coz the ones suffering r muslims nd the ones making to suffer r bloody israelis?
at 03:04 on July 9th, 2010
It is quite appalling that in the 2lst. century such ounishments are legally acceptable. We have developed more humane forms of punishment if it is required or justified but in this case there appears to be little justification for the inhuman treatment of this woman.
at 03:24 on July 9th, 2010
I never knew the procedure or really understood the stoning to death form of execution, apart from the absolute wrong of sentencing anyone to death by any means, this is so horrific, how can those men who were part of this whole procedure ever have peace in their minds? I hope they never have a moments peace for the rest of their lives, no religious belief justifies what they do and their reason for doing it. I just know how fortunate I am, living in England and, as a woman, being able to live with laws that do not kill me if I manage to find a little happiness.
at 08:06 on July 9th, 2010
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} A man or women, of age, no matter where they are from, should not ever be prosecuted by a government for having sex, unless the individual is a pedophile or a rapist. Sex, in or outside of marriage is a private matter between the two individuals involved, it is not anyone's business what others do. I am not condoning adultery; it is just none of my business who other people have sex with, that is on their conscience. Iran, stay out of your people's private lives and let Allah decide. Your government is not made out of Gods even though they act as if they could be.