Facing Stoning Death Sentence, Iranian Woman Paraded on State TV
- Posted on November 15, 2010 at 8:40pm by
Meredith Jessup
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TEHRAN, Iran – Iranian state television has broadcast a purported statement by an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery in which she calls herself a “sinner.”
The stoning sentence against the 43-year-old Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani has been put on hold and is now being reviewed by Iran’s supreme court, but she still faces a possible death sentence by other means.
The outcry over the case is one of the latest thorns in Iran’s relationship with the international community, as the U.S., EU and international human rights groups have urged Tehran to stay the execution.
A woman identified as Ashtiani said in the state TV report shown Monday: “I am a sinner.” Her face was blurred and her words were voiced over in what the TV report said was a translation into Farsi from Azeri Turkish, which is spoken in parts of Iran.
The report also broadcast purported statements by two men whose faces were blurred that state TV identified as Ashtiani’s son, Sajjad Qaderzadeh, and her lawyer, Houtan Kian, both of whom were arrested last month. It also aired comments from two Germans who were detained allegedly while trying to interview Ashtiani’s family in October.
Ashtiani was convicted in 2006 of having an “illicit relationship” with two men after the murder of her husband the year before and was sentenced at that time to 99 lashes. Later that year, she was also convicted of adultery and sentenced to be stoned, even though she retracted a confession that she says was made under duress. Ashtiani has also been convicted of involvement in the death of her husband, whom Iranian prosecutors say was murdered. She could still face execution by hanging in the two cases.
Her family and lawyer have said in the past that Ashtiani was tortured while in custody.
In the state TV report, Qaderzadeh retracted his previous allegations that his mother was tortured, and criticized Kian and Ashtiani’s previous lawyer — who fled to Norway this summer — for publicizing the case.
“He (Kian) told me to say she (Ashtiani) was tortured,” Qaderzadeh said. “Unfortunately, I listened to him and said lies to the foreign media.”
“I’m full of regret. I think if I had not known the two lawyers … the case would have gone through its normal course,” Qaderzadeh said.
Kian said he advised Qaderzadeh to lie to Western journalists.
“Saying lies to foreign media was my recommendation,” Kian said. “Of course, these were prudent lies.”
The broadcast of the purported statements appeared to be an attempt by Tehran to deflect international criticism of the case and focus attention instead on the West by accusing it of stirring up controversy over the case to damage the reputation of Iran’s Islamic leadership.
Iran has in the past accused a German-based Iranian anti-government group of arranging for Germans to interview Ashtiani’s family. Many exiled Iranian opposition groups have offices in Germany.
State TV said the two German nationals, whom Iran has accused of being spies, confessed that they had been hired by a female activist in Germany to speak with Ashtiani’s family.
One of the Germans said he intends to file a complaint against the activist once he returns to Germany, while second German said he had been deceived by her. The faces of both men were shown clearly in the footage.
A spokesman for Germany’s Foreign Ministry said Monday the ministry is trying to verify the reports and to get more information on the matter. He declined to be named in line with German government policy.
The arrest of the two men — who the German Journalists’ Association has only identified as a reporter and a photographer — suggests just how sensitive Tehran is over the case. Their detention will almost certainly elevate tensions between Iran and the West, already running high over suspicions about Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
Stoning was widely imposed in the years following the 1979 Islamic revolution, and even though Iran’s judiciary still regularly hands down such sentences, they are often converted to other punishments.
The last known stoning was carried out in 2007, although the government rarely confirms that such punishments have been meted out.
Under Islamic rulings, a man is usually buried up to his waist, while a woman is buried up to her chest with her hands also buried. Those carrying out the verdict then throw stones until the condemned dies.
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LEGION
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 1:32amSticks and stones can break her bones but, but NOTHIN’ – OWCH they hurt! Stop throwing stones dang Iranian madmen!
Report Post »SilentReader
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:18amThe Islamo-fascists are contemptible scum! Of course, how can you believe anything that is said here because these people are tortured to say what the authorities want them to say. They will never be able to tell you the truth.
Please check out our facebook page today because there’s a video there about the recent turmoil in England where these same Islamic fascists are causing their usual chaos and demanding Sharia to come to England and shouting their usual slogans of hate.
This is video that you won’t see on the media. In fact England refused to air it. This is an example of what will come here if we allow it. These people immigrate and every country they immigrate to is their Dar el Harb (House of War) until you submit to their barbaric Islam or pay the jizya (Muslim tax for them letting you live).
http://www.facebook.com/AmericanDefenceLeague
We don’t want their brutal Sharia here, so if you don‘t want Civil War and what’s happening in the UK right now, you’d better all wise up because these Muslim Supremists mean business and the Muslim Brotherhood has just made a Declaration of War on America, and all Christians, and Jews of course! We all know what happened when al Qaeda did that. Five years later we had 9/11 and 3000 Americans were mass-murdered.
http://www.facebook.com/AmericanDefenceLeague
Report Post »marksman234
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 11:36pmmy prescription to the problem…. a 2000 pound JDAM through the front door of ahmedinejads house
Report Post »J.C. McGlynn
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 2:28pmAnd the Islamic clerics who support it.
Report Post »ChipK
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 11:21pmthis idiot proves that a lots of diplomas done make one smart. what a loser.
Report Post »HEARDENOUGHCRAP
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:49pmAnyone who believes there is good in the world must also believe there is evil. I have been taught recently that God loves all the prople of the earth because they are of Him. But, I’m not so sure I believe that all people of the world are of God. I think there are those that come from evil, and radical muslims fit the profile.
Report Post »Free_Thinker
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:10pmVery civilized!
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:07pmWe must fight hard & with everything WE THE PEOPLE have in our power to never allow this type of “justice” in our country. CAIR is trying. It must not be allowed here.
Report Post »Dstarr55
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:06pmI can’t agree with you more – you already see Europe starting to fall with Mohammad the most popular name in Britain for newborns – you see Muslims wanting exceptions to rules, such as no pat downs in airports for Muslim women. For Walkwithme to think the Constitution will save us is naïve – all you need is more liberal judges on the bench – you already have Ruth Bader Ginsburg who is an advocate for using foreign law to shape U.S. law.
Report Post »pinnybogg
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 11:58amlive in Michigan near Dearborn, and still say we need to love the Muslim
Report Post »HouseNegro
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:01pmI mean how pissed was Mohamed when he decided this was the answer? “I think I’ll bury you up to your elbows, and then get the whole village to throw rocks, TILL YOUR DEAD!!!”. I wonder if he caught Mrs. Mohamed with a camel behind the tent? I mean what else could get you that mad?
Report Post »HillCountryPatriot
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:08pmLOL! Yep, Mohammed had a small wee-wee (that’s why he liked to rape the pre-pubescent crowd) and couldn’t take the humiliation.
valarie
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 9:59pmI find it completely befuddling that the left, as “women’s-rights” as they are, would NOT be RAGING against this MONSTEROUS treatment of women in other countries. I would have expected them to be shipping protestors out there by the thousands to “immasculate” any MAN (or Womyn) that would allow this to happen. Veryyyy Scarrrrrry. Maybe the idiots trying to allow weapons into the “Gaza” could take a break from their “cause” to stop a WOMAN from being MURDERED by a bunch of backward, Muslim lunatics?
Report Post »HillCountryPatriot
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:06pm@VALARIE: You are right. However, true Islam sanctifies the treatment of women this way. They believe this is Allah’s will and therefore is justified, and even expected. Any Muslim who denies the word of Mohammed is not a Muslim.
I suggest you to watch WHAT THE WEST NEEDS TO KNOW. Google it. It’s 98 minutes long but you will be riveted. It tells you everything you need to know about Islam and so-called moderate muslims.
Report Post »HillCountryPatriot
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 9:45pmDay-in and day-out since I was a kid, there is always some problem in the middle east. Those people are delusional and thousands of Americans have given their lives for those ungrateful bastards.
Do you realize how nice it would be to not hear a thing about Jihad, terrorism, Islam, middle east conflicts, etc? I’d like my grandchildren to never have to hear a word about that crap… it would be ancient history to them and that’s fine by me.
I’m sick of it. Why we don’t just get the inevitable over with is beyond me. THEY WANT A FIGHT? I SAY LEVEL THE PLACE AND EVERY OTHER MUSLIM NATION ONCE AND FOR ALL.
For all you people that think I’m being over-the-top, WAKE UP! They won’t stop until they rule the world. Why allow them the time to build strength, gather arms, and infiltrate our nation and other Western nations further. LET”S BRING IT TO THEM IN WAYS THEY CAN’T COMPREHEND.
Mohammed was no prophet: He was a MURDERER, a PEDOPHILE, and a RAPIST!!!
AMERICA–WAKE UP!!!
Report Post »takemout
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 11:31amA muslim couldn’t hit you with a stone. They throw like girls.
Report Post »spirited
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 9:42pmThey never heard that Jesus said, “Let he who has not sinned cast the first stone” ?
>Of course not. To the peaceful ones, –He was just A prophet.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 9:32pmWALKWITHME IS just trying to keep her head in a bag. she refuses to acknowledge the overwhelming evidence pertaining to the matter, and a prime example of not letting any facts that disagree with her lefty ideolog to get in the way. when the shyt hits the fan, and she realizes hoe ignorant she really is, i hope im the one she comes to for help, so i can have the honor of telling her ……..we told you so , and send her burka wearin ideological self back to those moderate muslims that are chasing her (just to give her a present) lol walkwithme needs to educate herself, because her paid education in her esteemed college robbed her blind
Report Post »Speak without Fear
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:03pmAgree……these liberals always think it won’t happen to “THEM”.
walkwithme……walks with camels.
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:55pmBecause I don’t agree with you – why do you treat me with such disrespect? I do not understand that about the people on this website. if someone doesn’t believe like you do, we are treated as morons and idiots. I am not a stupid person – and you make fun of my education when you don’t even know anything about my education. You people are the most bitter, narrow minded people I have every been in contact with. And most of you profess to be Christians – Christ would never act as you do – not the Christ I believe in. You give the TeaParty a very bad name. I have done nothing to any of you except occasionally state my opinion which in some cases agrees with yours – but when I don’t I am an idiot, a moron, uneducated, know nothing – this is so very wrong!! What type of education do you have? Who taught you manners and how to respect another human being? Your parents? Your churches? Whoever it was did not do a very good job!! http://maboulette.wordpress.com
Report Post »blacksmith
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 2:02pmI went to the website that walkwithme puts on the posts. I gave it a look to see where you are coming from. I looked and I did not see anything but the usual progressive garbage. You state that there are many things that you agree with on this site but the site you link to is the exact opposite of this site. In my opinion you are only here to aggravate and attempt to draw a negative response from posters so you can show your superiority. You claim that you are open minded and willing to accept all views,you are the taker of the high road, the great thinker. The American people , I believe, are at the end of their rope with people like you. You and your kind would put us all under the knife just so you can appear to be enlightened and progressive.The trick that you use is to attempt to make us feel bad because some poster on here hurt your feelings but yet your ilk does not have any difficulty in using my taxes to fund whatever moronic progressive scheme you feel will make you feel better about yourself and your kind. Instead of sitting around posting why don’t you go out and get a second or third job and redistribute your own wealth to the things that you believe in. You can give to a mosque,anti-Israel program, anti-gun, pro abortion, gay marriage,pro communist-socialist or any other program that you choose. The problem is that the people that believe in that kind of thinking do not want to give their money to their causes, they want to give mine. Boo Hoo. My heart pumps purple piss for you!
Report Post »REBELWITHACAUSE
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 4:25pm@ WALKWITHME – I am going to take a stab here and say, ‘okay… so you are trying to be nice, christian, and educated. All this is good and well. I too, am Christian, but as I believe we all are, am a sinner. While I strive daily to be free of sin, we all fall short. So, none of us should be casting ANY stone at ANYone else. What the others (and you as well) MAY not be understanding is the fact that God created us all. Yes, even those “muslims”. I am telling you, if you would read… no… don’t just read, but study it word for word, top to bottom, inside and out, the book The U.S. and Britain in Prophecy, (get it here, free of charge or download or read on-line: http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?page=book&b=44 and understand WHY not only those people are like they are, but… why the U.S. and Great Britain is crumbling around us. There is much to be understood from the Bible as to why these things are happening. We all should be praying Thy Kingdom Come though… because, the fanatics and extremists ARE taking over, and it’s Satan at the helm. Satan IS the god of this world… but when Christ returns, He’ll put an abrupt halt to this chaotic mess and finally, usher in a new world ruled by the almighty’s government. Get the book.. devour it. It might help you to understand Bible prophecy better and why we‘re dealing with what we’re dealing with. I hope no one reading this thinks I’m a fanatic… just a Bible-believer who works hard to understand as much as I can about the mind of God.
Report Post »spirited
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 9:32pmDefinitely a place that needs a nuclear power plant.
>Ya know, to run the electric stoning machine!
Report Post »NHABE64
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 9:23pmAnd to think muslims still walk among us who think like this. I am so sick of seeing muslims in this great country of ours, can’t they just pack up and go back to the desert ? I think our tolerance for these barbaric people is getting thin. Enough is enough.
Report Post »MommaGrizzly
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 9:11pmAnyone who could justify doing this to another human being is not human.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 9:30pmMy uncle is a muslum fanatic, and have personal understanding of the extremes of that faith. His actions cost me so much as a child and teen I do not know if I faced him again that I could stop from putting him into the wall.
Report Post »Veritas
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 9:08pmIs it too much to ask for these people to learn English? I mean come on, at least sub titles or something!
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 9:08pmto walkwithme1966: Well evidently you haven’t been keeping up with current events either. They are trying to get Muslim women exempt from being pat searched before boarding a plane. They are trying to get Shiria Law here in the U.S. So what part don’t you understand?
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 10:46pmThe part that it isn’t going to happen!! They can try but I don‘t believe that it isn’t going to happen!
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 9:00pmIslamo-Iran is a SICK, SICK nation! All you dumb-ass LEFTISTS who might be reading this ought to get down on your knees and KISS THE GROUND you walk on here in the country you hate! Most of you would suffer the very same fate this woman is threatened with were YOU TO LIVE IN IRAN!
Report Post »Johnnyp1958
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 9:00pmOzchambers Say’s , those sad souls, is there something we can do to help these people’s live say sing COM BIA. My daddy Say’s these are bad bad people
Report Post »Tony Nagy
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 8:52pmYe, who is without Sin?…cast the first stone!
Report Post »LovingAmerica
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 8:51pmBarbaric – Hateful – Disgusting
Please America, read the English version of the Koran. It has no resemblance to our Holy Bible. Their allah has no resemblance to the loving God we worship.
Report Post »workin4alivin
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 9:48pmyep, the allah was a pedophile.
Report Post »Speak without Fear
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 8:50pmAhhhhh….the religion of Peace!
Anyone watch the Stoning of Soraya M? Lots of “peaceful” muslims participated in stoning her.
ISLAM…….is pure evil.
Report Post »SnapTie
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 8:47pmThe religion of peace as they what you to believe. BS
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 8:43pmjust one more example what Oklahoma is trying to prevent coming to it if obama gets his master soros’s anti-American global agenda fulfilled.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 8:55pmThis is the religious example of extremists. If they execute her by other means, specifically by being hanged their law states it is done by strangulation, instead of the way in which the neckbone is snapped. The History Channel had several documentaries in the early 2006-2008 about several women and teenagers executed in that manner while the men got off scott free.
Welcome to the future of America if we do not stand up to the Feds and the activist judges who are letting it creep into our lands.
http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 9:00pmIf you truly believe that this type of law will ever be used in the United States then your adherence to the Constitution as well as your knowledge of it is very much lacking!! http://maboulette.wordpress.com
Report Post »bulldawg
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 9:08pmThis is what is going to destroy this Country if We the People don’t stand firm on the destruction of our Country. I live in Oklahoma, and what we voted on was just a simple law that would prevent International Law from being supreme to American Law. Wake Up America before it’s to late.
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bry
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 9:09pm@walkwithme…don’t fool yourself. If we don’t stop the progressives in their thirst for disposal of our Consitution, which Obama himself said was faulty, then we do face Sharia law. Pay attention.
Report Post »captquest
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 9:24pmwalkwithme1966, you are underestimating the Islamization that is happening around the world including the US.
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpM6QKaAgP0
A1955Rosie
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 9:51pmYep, so many times it’s announce how they want to make America Sharia compliant yet people fail to hear it or see it. I’ve seen it for a while. Hear how schools in America are taught some of this, how the courts have honored it in this country. Watched how in spring the mosque was proposed yet few if any said anything. NY banning smoking in public parks on the guise of cleaner air…oh please, the pollution air force 1 did in the photo op flyover was a years worth of outdoor smoking. No,,,,,it’s the intent and I wear my boots for the “throat of sharia” IN THIS COUNTRY. God bless and watch over this woman….maybe she’ll have 40 men in the afterlife that treat her with respect!
Report Post »jzs
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 12:08amI think you guys have this exactly backwards. Opinions differ among the left, but in general I think it’s safe to say that liberals oppose the death penalty, while conservatives support it. So it requires some mental gymnastics to suggest that Iran is an example of left wing though.
Not so much a stretch with regard to the right. Iran is a Theocracy – there is no separation of Church and State. The Church is the state, and extreme religious conservatives wield the power. They are imposing the penalties (I suppose, I haven’t read the Koran), of their religious book. What does the Bible say?
If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife, both the man and the woman must be put to death. (Leviticus 20:10 NLT)
A priest’s daughter who loses her honor by committing fornication and thereby dishonors her father also, shall be burned to death. (Leviticus 21:9 NAB)
Please skip the Sharia law crap, the Bible has the same injunctions if that’s what you choose to believe. We don’t want that kind of extreme religious conservatism in the United States, no matter where it comes from. There’s a much stronger argument that religious conservatives, who want to break down the separation of church and state are heading us that direction than liberals are. Hello!