adultery

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I think I might have had an article of that same exact title a few months back (but I can’t be bothered to check) in regards to a stoning in some bass ackwards society.  And now, is deja vu all over again.

Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani, a mother of two, is waiting to die…She will be buried up to her chest, deeper than a man would be, and the stones that will be hurled at her will be large enough to cause pain but not so large as to kill her immediately, according to an Amnesty International report that cited the Iranian penal code.

The Iranian Penal Code.  That thing is about as with-the-times as a fucking sun dial.  How can shit like this still happen?  I understand that there is capital punishment for the most horrible cri- Hm?  What was that?  She’s being killed for what?

Ashtiani was forced to confess after being subjected to 99 lashes. She later retracted that confession and has denied wrongdoing. Her conviction was based not on evidence but on the determination of three out of five judges. She has asked forgiveness from the court but the judges refused to grant clemency. Iran’s supreme court upheld the conviction in 2007. Mostafaei (her lawyer) believes a language barrier prevented his client from fully comprehending court proceedings. Ashtiani is of Azerbaijani descent and speaks Turkish, not Farsi.

So a woman gets whipped 99 times and then confesses to something in a language she doesn’t even speak and is now going to be buried up to her chest and have rocks thrown at her that are specifically sized to not kill her immediately.  WTF.

Article 74 of the Iranian penal code requires at least four witnesses — four men or three men and two women — for an adulterer to receive a stoning sentence, said Mina Ahadi, coordinator for the International Committee Against Stoning. But there were no witnesses in Ashtiani’s case.

No witnesses.  Seems like an open and shut case.

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