Iran 'stoning woman' to be lashed over photo

Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, has also been sentenced to 99 lashes for a photo published of her without a headscarf, according to her son.

In an interview published on the website of the French magazine La Regle du Jeu and the blog Dentelles et Tchador, Mohammadi-Ashtiani's son Sajjad said they learned of the new punishment from released inmates.
 
He said that a prison judge confirmed that she was to be lashed for spreading "corruption and indecency" by the publication of a photograph of her without a headscarf that appeared in a British newspaper.
 
The Times of London published on August 28 a photo of a woman without a headscarf that it said was Mohammadi Ashtiani, however on September 3 it said the attribution of the photo, which it received from one of her lawyers that has fled Iran, was incorrect.
 
The photo "... is certainly not that of my mother," said Sajjad.
 
Mohammadi Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother of two, was given the death penalty for an extramarital relationship.
 
Iran has subsequently said she was also convicted of being an accomplice in her husband's death, though she has denied that was the case.
 
Her plight has prompted protests in Europe and an international campaign to spare her. Tehran has provisionally suspended the death sentence.
 
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  • Ghassan 6 September 2010 08:35 0 0
    So-called 'Israel' is an illegal state that practices genocide against Palestinians. Those are the facts Lila no matter how hard you all try to change history.
  • Lila 6 September 2010 06:17 0 0
    By the way, there is no country of Palestine. Daily killings also happen in Israel, where's the outrage.
  • Khdmohd 5 September 2010 13:13 0 0
    Every Muslim country has its own laws and the West needs to respect that. If not, then human rights arm of the UN should interfere. The West needs to look into civilians killed by Nato army attacks in Pakistan, Iraq and Afganstan, and moreover in the occupied areas of Palestine where daily killings are taking place.

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