Posted on 07/15/2010 2:25:25 PM PDT by Michel12
An Iranian court has sentenced two more women to death by stoning, a human rights group reported Thursday, adding the horrific sentence was made worse by the fact that one of the women was pregnant.
Maryam Ghorbanzadeh was recently convicted of adultery and although she is pregnant, was sentenced by an Islamic court to death by stoning.
However, given her condition, there is a chance the sentence would be changed into death by hanging, which is the customary method of execution in Iran.
Her attorney told the media he was trying to have her sentence commuted to lashing, adding that even if her original sentence will remain unchanged, she will not be executed until she delivers.
Held at the Tabriz prison alongside Ghorbanzadeh is Azhar Bakri, 19, who was also sentenced to death by stoning after being convicted of adultery.
Bakri was jailed four years ago after her husband, whom she married at 14, accused her of having an extramarital affair. According to various reports, she has suffered massive abuse by the guards.
The International Committee against Executions, which is run by Iranian expats, vehemently denounced the verdicts and called for the immediate rescindment of all similar death penalties.
The group's data indicated that over the past 13 years, Tehran had to rescind 13 death sentences against women.
The most recent similar death sentence to catch the world media's attention is that of 43-year-old Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, who was convicted of adultery in 2006 and has already received a punishment of 99 lashes.
What do you expect from a bunch of Quakers?
6th century knuckle-dragging barbarians...
Barbarians.
Time to do some surgical bombardment on the trash infesting that country......
What’s that I hear at NOW headquarters? Crickets?
All cultures are equal. /s
Death by hanging instead of death by stoning? OK, gee, thanks, you guys are really swell. Can we all have a picnic and music and dancing beforehand?
Listen to the reaction of silence from NOW.
Time for Israel to start kicking ass...these people are worse than savages.
Terrible, she gets to see her babies face (or does she) and then she is executed. What do feminists think about this? *crickets*
I know let's build a mosque at GZ and maybe they'll be less cranky.
What a load of heartless hypocrites!
As some say Jesus indicated, where’s the man they supposedly committed adultery with?
If it weren’t for the sword, these people would never take nor retain power.
It’s just a collateral abortion as far as the left is concerned.
religion of pieces.
But Iran is an allie in the war against Israel!!! Little things like this shouldn’t stand in the way!/s
Religion of Iniquity, the genesis of the end times.
Maybe the United Nations, the Dept. of WOMENS RIGHTS will intervene...oops, they ARE the Dept of Womens Rights!
Islam turns people into mindless scum. It’s like the girls school that burned down in Saudi Arabia. The staff rushed the little girls out of school in their nightclothes, and the Saudi police rushed them back in to burn to death, the reason being that their nightclothes revealed too much. Islam is curse upon the world.
Perhaps the head of NASA should “dialogue” with them. I’m sure once he thanks them for all they have given to the modern world, they will immediately commute all the women’s death sentences.
government sponsored abortion?
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