Updated On: 12 July, 2010 06:48 AM IST | | Khalid A-H Ansari
Decision to stone two Iranian women to death for adultery evokes worldwide condemnation
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Decision to stone two Iranian women to death for adultery evokes worldwide condemnation
Even as the collective conscience of civilised societies around the world was outraged last week with the revelation by a London newspaper that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a 43-year-old Iranian woman had been sentenced to stoning by death for alleged adultery, a new case involving a 14-year old Iranian girl has come to light.
The Times newspaper of London yesterday published news of Azar Bagheri who, within a year of her marriage to an older man, had been charged with adultery and sentenced to be stoned to death.
The sentence could not be carried out until the girl reached the age of 18. So the girl has been languishing on death row for her to reach maturity.
Meanwhile the girl has been subjected to two mock stonings, on each occasion the girl being taken out of her cell and buried up to her shoulders in preparation for her ultimate stoning in the yard of Tabriz prison in northeast Iran.
Even as the collective conscience of civilised societies around the world was outraged last week with the revelation by a London newspaper that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a 43-year-old Iranian woman had been sentenced to stoning by death for alleged adultery, a new case involving a 14-year old Iranian girl has come to light.The Times newspaper of London yesterday published news of Azar Bagheri who, within a year of her marriage to an older man, had been charged with adultery and sentenced to be stoned to death.
The sentence could not be carried out until the girl reached the age of 18. So the girl has been languishing on death row for her to reach maturity.
Meanwhile the girl has been subjected to two mock stonings, on each occasion the girl being taken out of her cell and buried up to her shoulders in preparation for her ultimate stoning in the yard of Tabriz prison in northeast Iran.
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| Have mercy: A protester dressed as somebody about to be executed by stoning takes part in a protest in Trafalgar Square, London, to highlight the punishment inflicted on people under the Iranian regime including Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani (below right). Pics/AFP Read Next Story Trending StoriesLatest Photos |
