Posted on 09/04/2010 7:56:12 AM PDT by george76
Mr Mostafaei, 37, is the human rights lawyer who represented Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for alleged adultery. He was forced to flee in July after he severely embarrassed the Tehran regime by broadcasting the woman's plight to the world. Unable to catch him, the Iranian police seized his wife, with her brother and father, and held them as hostages in Tehran's infamous Evin prison. His wife was incarcerated for 14 days. She was released only when Mr Mostafaei reached the safety of Norway and was beyond the regime's reach.
But whether the Iranian government would let Ms Halimi and Parmida leave Tehran to join him was an entirely different matter, especially as she had been released only on bail and was facing trial for helping her husband to escape from the country.
The family put the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the test yesterday. Ms Halimi, 33, had a multiple exit visa obtained before her husband attracted the ire of the authorities. Ten days ago she bought air tickets to Istanbul for herself and her daughter, with return tickets to avoid suspicion.
As the plane took off, Ms Halimi said, she wept with relief, gave thanks to God for her deliverance and then, in an almost symbolic gesture, removed her hijab.
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Barbarians, depraved freaks
Moving the Islamic clock ahead (after being rusted and clogged for centuries) is going to take a lot of courage.
“Joy for Stoning Lawyer”? Is that a punk band?
that is wonderful news. Thank God for his bravery in representing Ashanti.
There is a video interview with her at the Oslo airport, soon after she arrived. I saw a clip of it on FNC(?) yesterday. Haven’t been able to find it online yet, but it’s definitely worth the watching if you come across it.
I was particularly impressed by her appearance and demeanor. If you see it, you’ll know what I mean, when you consider that she’s been forced to wear a headscarf in public every day since she was a little girl.
Thisd is not the interview I saw yesterdaty, that one was just the wife and daughter, and the daughter had a hooded coat on.
But this is the reunited family, at the Oslo airport:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zij-bf4Dtbo
Could be our future. In this case there will be no place to run for safety.
The quran is what it is. Its only movement forward is further back in time. islam is going to have to be crushed or it will surely crush us. There really is no other way.
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