Posted on 08/03/2010 12:48:13 AM PDT by odds
WASHINGTON — The United States urged Iran Monday to accept an asylum offer from Brazil for a Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery.
"If Brazil is willing to accept... this woman, we would hope that Iran would consider that as a humanitarian gesture," State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said.
"And the fact that Brazil has stepped up and indicated a willingness to resolve it, we hope Iran will listen."
The comments came after Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Saturday offered asylum to Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, a 43-year-old Iranian mother of two.
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Execution by stoning, hanging, and so on will remain in Iran. So long as the Islamic Republic of Iran & its laws, enshrined in its Constitution, remain enforced.
Another link for this news:
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/7938910/us-backs-brazil-offer-to-take-iran-woman
“..... the Brazilian offer was made “under the influence of foreign media” and that the defendant, Sakineh Ashtiani, 43, might not be stoned to death ....... She could be hanged instead.” (August 2, 2010).
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/03/world/middleeast/03iran.html?src=mv&ref=world
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