Iran: Updates on Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani

Reports indicate that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani is likely to face an Iranian court sentence on Saturday, August 21, 2010, but also states if she is to be stoned it will not be during Ramadan.

As previously reported, the Iranian government will not allow  Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani asylum in Brazil.  In another report by the Guardian, “ran  appears to be quietly changing the sentences of Iranians awaiting death by stoning to hanging after international outcry following the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother of two.”

AP reports: “Iran will not send a woman who had faced death by stoning on an adultery conviction to Brazil, which has offered her asylum, the president said in a TV interview broadcast Monday.”

AHN: Iran Not To Execute Stoning Woman In Ramadan Month
— AHN reports
: “Nearly two days after Iranian government has announced that the woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery will not face execution during the ongoing holy month of Ramadan, an Iranian court postponed her final sentence. A human rights group named International Committee Against Stoning said that the sentence in Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani’s case is likely to be announced on August 21 when her lawyer will make next appearance at the court.”

CNN: Final verdict postponed for Iranian woman facing stoning

Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) rejects the barbaric practice of stoning which predominantly targets women.

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