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Iranian mother sentenced to death by stoning over adultery | An Iranian woman, who has been charged with committing adultery with two men involved in the killing of her husband, is to be stoned to death. Forty-three-year-old Sakineh Mohamamadi e Ashtiani,
who hails from the northwestern Iranian city of Tabriz, has been accused of having
affairs with two men, who were accused of murdering her husband in 2005. "If the
barbaric sentence is enforced it would be the first stoning to take place in the
hardline Islamic Republic in years," the Jerusalem Post reported. Experts say
infidelity is outlawed in Iran and usually punished with lashes or prison. Execution
is permitted under Iranian law but stoning is rare. Ashtiani was sent to jail
after being sentenced to 99 lashes for having 'illicit relationships'. "She was
then tried for murder and found guilty, and the sentence of death by stoning imposed,"
the paper said. While adultery is punishable by stoning, Iranian human rights
advocates point out that murder is punishable by hanging, and suggest that her
adultery case was reopened during her murder trial, despite her already having
been sentenced. Ashtiani has denied any wrongdoing and her two children Fasride
and Sajjad backed by human rights group are leading the campaign for her release. |
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