Iran

Des centaines de personnes se sont données rendez-vous ce samedi, 28 aout sur la place du Trocadero, pour dire leur soutien total à Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani et pour crier leur colère contre cette pratique barbare qu'est la lapidation. 

The controversial Family Protection bill was dealt a blow at the Islamic parliament today as one of its articles outlining legal registration of "temporary marriages" was voted down. ILNA reports that Article 21 of the new bill failed to pass through the parliament with only 45 votes in favour of it. The article was one of the points women’s rights activists objected to in the so-called Family Protection bill.

 À l’occasion de l’opération “100 villes pour Sakineh”, le Mouvement Ni Putes Ni Soumises, et la Ligue du Droit International des Femmes se mobilisent et organisent un rassemblement à Paris. Le même jour qu’à Berlin, New York, Madrid ou Tokyo, rassemblons nous pour nous opposer au traitement infligé à la jeune iranienne Sakineh, accusée d’adultère !

Early July pulsed with reports of Iranian mother Sakineh Ashtiani's impending execution, which, at the time, was to be carried out by stoning. Her alleged crime was zina, adultery or fornication, a moral transgression for which more women are punished than men. Because stoning is defended on religious grounds (in Articles 86 and 105 of the Iranian penal code), its champions afford themselves the authority to acquiesce rarely, if ever, to external demands for clemency. So while diplomatic pressure, international offers of asylum, and a Western media push constitute the most visible efforts to "free Sakineh," a new book suggests that "Islamic feminists," or individuals working within Islamic discourse to promote women's empowerment, constitute a more potent activism over the long term.

Writing about Shiva Nazar Ahari is more than writing about a human rights activist and fighter. It’s writing about those who take up the mantle of struggle to fight for establishing and consolidating their countrymen’s basic rights, without having a political agenda.  Some bear prison and torture, others exile and refuge camps.  Still, Shiva Nazar Ahari’s case is a dangerous one and the silence of the media about her is reprehensible, especially as her lawyer says Shiva’s trial date is set for September 4, for charges of moharebeh, war on god, which is punishable by execution.

Libération publie un appel d'intellectuels pour sauver cette femme iranienne condamnée à la peine capitale par lapidation par le régime. «Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani attendait dans la prison de Tabriz, dans l’ouest de l’Iran, où elle croupit depuis cinq ans, la réponse à une demande de réexamen de son cas –prévue, initialement, pour le 15 août.

According to Javid Kian, the lawyer for 25 year old Maryam Ghorbanzadeh, in a letter to Judiciary intelligence and security, judicial officials (most notably Saeed Mortazavi) decided that the case of Maryam Ghorbanzadeh needs to be resolved so they could deal with Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani’s case. Javid Kian tells Rooz that “all the attention is focused on the Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani case, and in the midst of it all, the life of Ms. Ghorbanzadeh is at risk.  In the wake of protests against Ms. Ashtiani’s stoning sentence, [authorities] changed the stoning sentence for Ms. Ghorbanzadeh to death by hanging. The ruling was sent to the department that processes death sentences.  She can be executed any moment now.”

Some of the individuals who were executed for drug related charges had received their sentences in the past and the death penalty should not have been applied to them. In some cases, the individuals only had to pay a monetary penalty. However, their sudden death sentence was issued by the judiciary authorities. 

The Global Campaign to Stop Killing and Stoning Women and the Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) International Solidarity Network deplore the staging of a ‘public confession’ on Iranian television by Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, who is awaiting execution in Iran by stoning for adultery.

The ‘confession’, done in an interview format, was broadcast on Wednesday 11th August on the '20:30' television program by Seda va Sima, the government broadcasting station. The ‘confession’, showed Sakineh implicating herself in the murder of her husband.

En Iran, la « confession » télévisée d'une femme condamnée à mort fait craindre que son exécution soit imminente, ce qui suscite de nouveau l'indignation de défenseurs des droits de l'homme. Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, âgée de 43 ans, a déclaré mercredi à la télévision d'État qu'elle avait participé au meurtre de son mari et qu'elle avait eu une relation extraconjugale avec le cousin de ce dernier. L'Iranienne était enveloppée d'un tchador noir qui ne laissait apparaître que son nez et un oeil. Ses déclarations, faites en azéri, ont été traduites en farsi, rendant impossible toute vérification indépendante de son identité. Son avocat, Houtan Kian, affirme qu'il s'agit d'aveux soutirés sous la torture. « Elle a été frappée violemment et torturée jusqu'à ce qu'elle accepte d'apparaître face à la caméra », a affirmé Houtan Kian, depuis la Norvège où il s'est réfugié.

« Son fils Sajad, 22 ans, et sa fille Saeedeh, 17 ans, sont complètement traumatisés après avoir regardé cette émission », a-t-il indiqué dans un entretien publié par le quotidien britannique The Guardian.

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