On Nov 4, 2006, at 5:22 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
You can get 456 docs about Iran at
<http://www.google.com/custom?
sitesearch=feminist.org&q=iran&Submit3=Search&domains=feminist.org>.
I hope they won't be campaigning for sanctions once Democrats get
back in power.
Which are mostly news stories, including one about a 16-year-old girl
who was executed for violating chastity laws, another about a 37-year-
old sentenced to death by stoning for adultery - and several about
opposition to a US attack on Iran. I don't see anything endorsing
sanctions though.
The stoning story makes for lively reading, don't you think?
Doug
<http://feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=9799>
Feminist Daily News Wire
July 28, 2006
Iranian Woman Sentenced to Death by Stoning
Ashraf Kolhari, a 37-year-old mother of four, has been sentenced to
death by stoning for committing adultery in Iran. Kolhari was
arrested five years ago and has been awaiting her sentence in prison.
Recently, she received the decision that she would be executed by the
end of July.
Reportedly, Kolhari had an affair after her request for a divorce
from her husband was denied. According to Iran Focus, she was
sentenced on two charges: she received 15 years imprisonment for
participating in the murder of her husband and death by stoning for
having extra-marital sex.
Under the Islamic Republic of Iran’s penal code, Kolhari must be
buried up to her neck and killed by stoning for committing adultery.
Though several ayatollahs have released fatwas – religious edicts –
to stop deaths by stoning, Iranian women’s rights lawyer Shadi Sadr
told the Adnkronos International, an Italian news agency, that fatwas
are not sufficient to stop this cruel practice: “Single judges are
not obliged to respect the fatwas. To stop stonings, we need a change
in the law.”
According to the Women’s Forum Against Fundamentalism in Iran, there
are eight other women in Iranian prisons who have been sentenced to
death by stoning.
