Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Iranian sentenced to death by stoning for adultery 'subjected to mock execution'

Animals.  That's the only description that fits the current Iranian governing body.  The sooner this bunch of monsters is eliminated, the better for all of humanity.

FROM DAILYMAIL.CO.UK:

Iranian sentenced to death by stoning for adultery 'subjected to mock execution'

By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 10:47 AM on 1st September 2010

Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani was told she would be hanged at dawn on Sunday, but she was not

Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani was told she would be hanged at dawn on Sunday, but she was not

An Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning was subjected to a mock execution by hanging.

In preparation for her death, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani wrote her will and embraced her cellmates in Tabriz prison.

But the mother-of-two, who was acquitted of murdering her husband but found guilty of adultery, was not led to the gallows.

Her son told The Guardian: ‘Pressure from the international community has so far stopped them from carrying out the sentence but they’re killing her every day by any means possible.’

The latest development comes after prison authorities denied family and legal visits, falsely telling them Ashtiani was unwilling to see them. In turn, she was told no one had come to see her.

Ashtiani has already received 99 lashes for reportedly having an illicit relationship with two men.

The stoning sentence was suspended pending a judicial review but could still be carried out, an Iranian judiciary official has said.

Murder, adultery, rape, armed robbery, apostasy and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under Iran's Sharia law, enforced since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

The 43-year-old’s lawyer, Houtan Kian, has accused the government of inventing the charges against her.

Sajad, whose mother’s plight has resulted in protest rallies in hundreds of cities, believes the international outcry is the only reason his mother is still alive.
A protester, dressed with a costume to depict a woman stoned to death in Iran, participates in a demonstration organised by the National Council of Resistance of Iran in France

A protester, dressed with a costume to depict a woman stoned to death in Iran, participates in a demonstration organised by the National Council of Resistance of Iran in France

He added: ‘I beg everybody in the world to continue their support for my mother. That is the only way she might be spared from the death sentence.’

French First Lady Carla Bruni became involved in the row for protesting against the case.

The wife of President Nicholas Sarkozy ‘deserves to die’ for supporting an 'adulteress', according to leading Iranian paper Kayhan.

In an open letter, Ms Bruni wrote: 'Spill your blood, deprive your children of their mother? Why?

'Because you have lived, because you have loved, because you are a woman, an Iranian? Every part of me refuses to accept this.'

The paper responded by dubbing her a marriage-wrecking ‘prostitute’ because of her affairs with high-profile celebrities who already had partners.