MAIL ONLINE: An Iranian mother-of-two faces death by stoning after being convicted of adultery.
Amnesty International today urged the Iranian authorities to halt the execution of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani.
The human rights organisation describes stoning as a ‘grotesque and unacceptable penalty which Iran should abolish immediately’.
Ashtiani’s children joined in with a heart-breaking appeal to the international community to help spare their mother’s life.
‘Please help end this nightmare and do not let it turn into a reality,’ begged her daughter, Farideh, 16, and her son, Sajad, 20.
‘Explaining the minutes and seconds of our lives is very difficult. Words lose their meaning in these agonising moments. Help us save our mother.’
Ashtiani, 43, was convicted of having an ‘illicit relationship’ with two men in May 2006 and received 99 lashes as her sentence.
Despite this, she was later convicted of ‘adultery while being married’ and was sentenced to death by stoning. >>> Michael Theodoulou | Thursday, July 01, 2010
