Iranian wife faces death by stoning for adultery
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I just read this story and it made me feel so sick. The poor lady has been in jail for the last 11 years as she had an affair with a married man. Of course adultery is so so wrong but how can they be so cruel. The picture, along with the story makes me so ill. Then i read the comments that other people had contributed and some people are saying that she knew the laws of the country before she committed the crime and thefore the punishment fits.
What do you guys think. Am i the only one that is horrified by this. They are animals.
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Iranian wife faces death by stoning for adultery
By MICHAEL SEAMARK - More by this author »
Last updated at 20:35pm on 11th July 2007
An Iranian woman faces being stoned to death for having an affair with a married man.
Mother- of- two Mokarrameh Ebrahimi has spent the last 11 years in jail for adultery with Jafar Kiani.
Authorities in Tehran confirmed yesterday that Kiani had been executed last week. Now human rights groups fear 43-year-old Ebrahimi will suffer the same brutal fate.
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Barbaric: This picture released by Amnesty International shows how a woman would be prepared for stoning
A stoning pit, in which she will be buried up to her neck, has already been prepared for her.
Amnesty International UK director Kate Allen, launching an "urgent" appeal, said: "To execute anyone by stoning is barbaric and disgraceful, to execute a woman for adultery in this cruel way simply beggars belief.
"It is imperative that Iran's head of judiciary takes immediate steps to stop the shameful stoning of Mokarrameh Ebrahimi while clarifying what has happened to her co-accused Jafar Kiani."
Tehran stopped official stonings in 2002 following international pressure.
But judiciary spokesman Alireza Jamshidi confirmed that Jafar Kiani had been killed on Thursday. "The verdict was implemented because it was definitive," he said.
Under Islamic law a male convict is buried up to the waist with his hands tied behind his back, while a female is usually buried up to her neck.
Spectators and officials then carry out the execution by hurling rocks and stones.
The stones are deliberately chosen to be large enough to cause pain, but not big enough to kill the person in just one or two strikes.
Kiani and Ebrahimi were jailed in 1996 and their two children, one aged 11, are believed to live in prison with their mother.
The Iranian women's group Stop Stoning Forever say the couple were living together when they were first detained, with reports suggesting Mokarrameh had been thrown out of the family home by her husband.
Both the man and woman have children from their previous marriages.
Stoning was widely used after the 1979 Islamic revolution propelled hard line clerics into power, but in
2002 they were replaced with other means of punishment. Despite this, human rights groups say a man and a woman were stoned to death in 2006 in north-east Iran, after being convicted of adultery and murdering the woman's husband.
The stoning of Jafa Kiani brings to at least 110 the number of executions - by public hanging - carried in Iran this year.
The death penalty is automatically imposed for murder, rape, armed robbery, blasphemy, serious drug trafficking, repeated sodomy, adultery, prostitution, treason and espionage.
Of the 24 juvenile offenders executed in Iran since 1990, 11 were still children by the time they died. Others were held in prison until their 18th birthday before being hanged.
In May, the European Union criticised Tehran's human rights record and expressed concern about the use of the death penalty in the Islamic state.
Iran says it is acting on the basis of Islamic sharia law.
Last night it emerged that Mokarrameh Ebrahimi has been given a stay of execution while her case is reviewed. However human rights campaigners believe there may be little hope for her.
They point out that her lover was told two weeks ago that his death sentence had been suspended, only for him then to be executed last Thursday.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=467588&in_page_id=1811
What do you guys think. Am i the only one that is horrified by this. They are animals.
Peace
Iranian wife faces death by stoning for adultery
By MICHAEL SEAMARK - More by this author »
Last updated at 20:35pm on 11th July 2007
An Iranian woman faces being stoned to death for having an affair with a married man.
Mother- of- two Mokarrameh Ebrahimi has spent the last 11 years in jail for adultery with Jafar Kiani.
Authorities in Tehran confirmed yesterday that Kiani had been executed last week. Now human rights groups fear 43-year-old Ebrahimi will suffer the same brutal fate.
Scroll down for more...
Barbaric: This picture released by Amnesty International shows how a woman would be prepared for stoning
A stoning pit, in which she will be buried up to her neck, has already been prepared for her.
Amnesty International UK director Kate Allen, launching an "urgent" appeal, said: "To execute anyone by stoning is barbaric and disgraceful, to execute a woman for adultery in this cruel way simply beggars belief.
"It is imperative that Iran's head of judiciary takes immediate steps to stop the shameful stoning of Mokarrameh Ebrahimi while clarifying what has happened to her co-accused Jafar Kiani."
Tehran stopped official stonings in 2002 following international pressure.
But judiciary spokesman Alireza Jamshidi confirmed that Jafar Kiani had been killed on Thursday. "The verdict was implemented because it was definitive," he said.
Under Islamic law a male convict is buried up to the waist with his hands tied behind his back, while a female is usually buried up to her neck.
Spectators and officials then carry out the execution by hurling rocks and stones.
The stones are deliberately chosen to be large enough to cause pain, but not big enough to kill the person in just one or two strikes.
Kiani and Ebrahimi were jailed in 1996 and their two children, one aged 11, are believed to live in prison with their mother.
The Iranian women's group Stop Stoning Forever say the couple were living together when they were first detained, with reports suggesting Mokarrameh had been thrown out of the family home by her husband.
Both the man and woman have children from their previous marriages.
Stoning was widely used after the 1979 Islamic revolution propelled hard line clerics into power, but in
2002 they were replaced with other means of punishment. Despite this, human rights groups say a man and a woman were stoned to death in 2006 in north-east Iran, after being convicted of adultery and murdering the woman's husband.
The stoning of Jafa Kiani brings to at least 110 the number of executions - by public hanging - carried in Iran this year.
The death penalty is automatically imposed for murder, rape, armed robbery, blasphemy, serious drug trafficking, repeated sodomy, adultery, prostitution, treason and espionage.
Of the 24 juvenile offenders executed in Iran since 1990, 11 were still children by the time they died. Others were held in prison until their 18th birthday before being hanged.
In May, the European Union criticised Tehran's human rights record and expressed concern about the use of the death penalty in the Islamic state.
Iran says it is acting on the basis of Islamic sharia law.
Last night it emerged that Mokarrameh Ebrahimi has been given a stay of execution while her case is reviewed. However human rights campaigners believe there may be little hope for her.
They point out that her lover was told two weeks ago that his death sentence had been suspended, only for him then to be executed last Thursday.
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We also have been punishing the Iraqi people for over 4 years.. Death by bombing, bullets etc... Pretty harsh punishment for livining with a hundred-or-so mile radius of some people America considerd bad people.
We also have been punishing the Iraqi people for over 4 years.. Death by bombing, bullets etc... Pretty harsh punishment for livining with a hundred-or-so mile radius of some people America considerd bad people.
I thought we were talking about Iran, and death by stoning for adultery.
Hey liberals! CAN YOU JUST ACKNOWLEDGE THIS IS WRONG? Not with, "yeah but the US has done some bad shit too." It's true. But we have plenty of opportunities to talk about that (and we should too). But there is nothing wrong with condemning barbarric practices of other cultures and leaving it at that.
What most of you say is true, but it almost sounds like excuse making. This kind of shit has gone on there since well before we went to Iraq.
As for this, I don't like to bash other cultures in general, but when it comes to blatent mistreatment of citizens, it's a no-brainer. To put people to death for such things (and to treat men and women so blatently different for it) is one of the things that makes me glad to be in the US.
Libs get a little antsy about Iran's faults being brought up all the time when other countries atrocities go unmentioned. It just seems kinda convenient to bring them up constantly just to demonize them when they happen to be enemy #1 nowadays in the media. I'm sure they've been doing this for years and it seems funny to put so much focus solely on Iran's inhumanity. This, in no way, means they should be bombed or invaded but there's always some that will point to this kinda thing and act as if it somehow justifys the case military intervention even more.
That being sad, of course it's obvious that this kind of justice is sickening and should be spoken out against.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
But the glove didn't fit!
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
Do I support it? No. But it isn't my business.
Facepollution, I agree with every thing you said.