Posted on 12/17/2004 9:41:46 PM PST by freedom44
An Iranian woman charged with adultery faces death by stoning in the next five days after her death sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court last month. Her unnamed co-defendant is at risk of imminent execution by hanging. Amnesty International members are now writing urgent appeals to the Iranian authorities, calling for the execution to be stopped.
According to reports, Hajieh Esmailvand was sentenced to five years imprisonment, to be followed by execution by stoning, for adultery with an unnamed man who at the time was a 17 year old minor. Although the exact date of her arrest and trial are not known, it is reported that she has been imprisoned in the town of Jolfa, in the north west of Iran, since January 2000.
The Iranian Penal Code is very specific about the manner of execution and types of stones which should be used. Article 102 states that men will be buried up to their waists and women up to their breasts for the purpose of execution by stoning. Article 104 states, with reference to the penalty for adultery, that the stones used should “not be large enough to kill the person by one or two strikes, nor should they be so small that they could not be defined as stones”.
All death sentences in Iran must be upheld by the Supreme Court before they can be carried out. In November 2004, the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence against Hajieh Esmailvand but changed the lower court's verdict from ‘death by hanging’ to ‘death by stoning’. Reports suggest that the Supreme Court has ordered that the remainder of Hajieh’s five year prison sentence be annulled so that the stoning sentence can be carried out before 21 December.
Amnesty International UK Media Director Mike Blakemore said:
"This is an urgent case. Hejieh could be killed in the next five days if we do not act quickly. Our members here in the UK are writing to the Iranian authorities, imploring them to stop this brutal execution. Campaigners in Iran are also taking action. But we need more people to stand up and be counted, to tell the Iranian authorities that this is not acceptable.
"Every day, thousands of women across the world face repression and violence, just because they are women. From the battlefield to the bedroom, women are at risk. Violence against women is a human rights atrocity and one we must tackle immediately."
The news follows reports of a 19-year old girl, "Leyla M", who has a mental age of eight, reportedly facing imminent execution for "morality-related" offences in Iran after being forced into prostitution by her mother as a child. According to a Tehran newspaper report of 28 November, she was sentenced to death by a court in the central Iranian city of Arak and the sentence has now been passed to the Supreme Court for confirmation.
Leyla M was reportedly sentenced to death on charges of "acts contrary to chastity" by controlling a brothel, having intercourse with blood relatives and giving birth to an illegitimate child. She is to be flogged before she is executed. She had apparently “confessed” to the charges.
Leyla was forced into prostitution by her mother when she was eight years old, according to the 28 November report, and was raped repeatedly thereafter. She gave birth to her first child when she was nine, and was sentenced to 100 lashes for prostitution at around the same time. At the age of 12, her family sold her to an Afghan man to become his “temporary wife”.
His mother became her new pimp, “selling her body without her consent”. At the age of 14 she became pregnant again, and received a further 100 lashes, after which she was moved to a maternity ward to give birth to twins. After this "temporary marriage", her family sold her again, to a 55-year-old man, married with two children, who had Leyla’s customers come to his house.
One in three women around the world suffer serious violence in their lifetime, at home, in the community or in war, just because they are women. Amnesty International is running a global campaign to 'Stop Violence Against Women'. The human rights organisation is calling on governments to repeal laws that permit and encourage violence against women, and on communities to challenge attitudes that allow violence to continue.
islamic savages, one and all. Poor children.
I wish to heck that the people of Iran would rise up, and take the ayatollahs out and bury them up their necks and stone the hypocritical bastards to death!
Well, at least they reduced the sentence.
I'm sure NOW and all the other feminazi groups are out there trying to stop this right?
Where was Amnesty International when thousands upon thousands of innocent Iraqi's were murdered? We're dealing with Islam, here. A religion of peace! The men go unpunished, and the women die a horrible death, usually the penalty for being raped. Does NOW have anything to say? No, they are totally silent, unless an innocent pre-born baby is being saved from the slaughter.
Muslim woman stabbed to death in her own bed today in Metairie, LA. News reporters are calling it a hate crime. Husband takes kids to school, supposedly comes home to find wife savagely murdered and bedroom torn up. The husband seems like the prime suspect to me.
The large majority wanted this type of system back in 1979. Looks like they got it.
I'm now convinced: declare war on Iran!
Ah, only up to their waists (See Rules, above). THEN stone the bastards to death!
That's a total twist on history. The large majority didn't want this system, the Mullahs hijacked the revolution. Most of the groups demonstrating were either nationalists or leftists. Most of the people in the government were secular nationalists up until Khomenei had them killed.
There was an article i posted earlier from 1980 after the revolution where close to half a million demonstrated against possible mandatory veil.
Maureen Dowd will decree this soon in one of her noxious drunken rants.
Or better yet, she will ignore it completely, knowing in her sotted soul, that Islam is the religion of Peace.
I thought the getting stoned came first and then the sex part after that.
And these people are about to get nukes? Maybe if America saw this they would understand the danger that Iran poses.
Where are all the human rights organizations now?
Golly what fun-loving people... /disgust
Kinda 60s but I get it.
LOL
Sitting on their ass hating western republics.
Most everything in the R.O.P is Bass-Ackwards
These people are barbarians.
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