Iran: Seven Women at Risk of Stoning

[democratic]

http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE131112006

IRAN Parisa Akbari (f)
Iran Eskandari (f)
Khayrieh Valania (f)
Shamameh Ghorbani (also known as Malek) (f)
Kobra Najjar (f, aged 44)
Soghra Mola'i (f)
Fatemeh (f)

The women named above are at risk of execution by stoning.Parisa Akbari was arrested in April 2004, while working as a prostitute in the city of Shiraz in southern Iran. She confessed to the charge of adultery during
the preliminary investigations, claiming that she had been forced into
prostitution by her husband due to the family’s poverty. Her trial took place
in June 2004, during which Parisa Akbari retracted her confession.
Nevertheless, on 21 June 2004, Branch 5 of Fars province Criminal Court
sentenced her to death by stoning for adultery. The sentence was upheld by
Branch 32 of the Supreme Court on 15 November 2005. Her case is currently being
reviewed by the Supreme Court. Parisa Akbari is detained in Adelabad prison in
Shiraz.

Iran Eskandari, an Ahwazi Arab from the Bakhtiari clan, was reportedly talking
to the son of a neighbour in the courtyard of her house, when her husband
attacked her with a knife. She was badly beaten and left bleeding and
unconscious on the floor. While she was unconscious, it is alleged that the man
killed her husband with his own knife. While police were interrogating her
about the killing, Iran Eskandari reportedly confessed to adultery with the son
of her neighbour. However she later retracted her confession. A court in the
city of Khuzestan sentenced her to five years' imprisonment for being an
accomplice in the murder of her husband, and to execution by stoning for
adultery. The verdict was upheld by the Supreme Court in April 2006. Her lawyer
has appealed against the sentence. She is detained in Sepidar prison, in Ahvaz
city.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. The stoning of women is practiced in Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nigeria

and Saudi Arabia.

law of the Sharia.
http://www.amitiesquebec-israel.org/texts/stoning.htm

just so we remember, it's not just in Iran, and it's not Iran doing it, it's certain Muslim sects around the world.

[democratic]

2. Actually

Afghani courts have banned stoning - that was under the Taliban, but you're correct about other countries.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

4. last article for Afghanistan - 2005

Discrimination against women in Afghanistan will continue to have grave consequences until the government takes concrete steps to end it, said Amnesty International following the killing by stoning of a 29 year-old woman accused of adultery.

The killing, committed last week, is alleged to be the first incident of the execution of a woman for committing adultery since the removal of the Taleban regime in late 2001.

snip>

This is especially pertinent with regards to Afghanistan where the central criminal justice system is unable to provide adequate safeguards against local court decisions and similarly cannot, as of yet, ensure the minimum standards of a fair trial with due process.

Amnesty International calls upon the Afghan government to uphold its international obligations to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which under Article 7 clearly states that "No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." Under international human rights law, states must exercise due diligence to secure women's rights to equality, life, liberty and security, and freedom from discrimination, torture and cruel and inhuman and degrading treatment.
http://news.amnesty.org/index/ENGASA110052005

We still have work to do there, too. :(

AFGHAN WOMEN'S MAG EDITOR JAILED FOR ARTICLES AGAINST STONING TO DEATH AND LASHING
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=8986

[bhikkhu]

13. Read Leviticus

A few steps backward and it is Christian and Jewish Theocracies joining in as well. Prosperity leads to civil rights and protections. In Iran's case, their oil reserves lead to prosperity, given peace. War leads to nothing.

[USA_1]

3. Black Men Are Routinely Shot At By White Police ...

... all throughout the USA each and every day.

Just last week another innocent Black brother was needlessly shot and killed by paranoid White cops in Minneapolis and it got virtually no attention from the news media.

While the events in Iran are hardly benign, let's not get too overly concerned with problems overseas while bigger tragedies occur at home and while everybody chooses to disregard them.

[pnwmom]

5. The difference is that the law condones one and not the other.

[USA_1]

6. The law sure as hell is benign with the Mark Fuhrmann ...

types who continue to perpetrate these crimes with impunity.

[democratic]

7. Get a life...

I understand a black guy being shot by a 'paranoid white cops', but how is it in anyway comparable to women being stoned to death for standing up for being object of rape in Iran?

It's sick to even compare. Some of us democrats have some major, major issues who make our entire party look horrible - unless we resolve them there's no way we are gaining much of anything in 2006 or 2008.

[USA_1]

8. "major issues"

That's the goddamn point, genius.

We have issues at home that need to be dealt with and corrected before we embark on attempting to become saviors of the world.

When that young black man was murdered in Minneapolis last week after having done absolutely nothing wrong, did you or anyone else outside of this area notice? Has a petition been circulated to keep cops from doing this shit every week throughout the USA? And how many more black men must be gunned down in the streets before international attention is focussed on it and before it finally stops?

As I said above it's not that these international issues do not merit attention. The important thing is that we Americans focus too much attention on issues beyond our reach while conveniently ignoring issues at home that can be solved and should have been solved years ago. And by focussing on overseas problems we are being further drawn away from these critical issues.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

9. I'm from Minneapolis, and that was a horrible case

The young man was not hurting anybody, just freaking out for some reason.

[USA_1]

11. What happened in St Paul 2 years ago was worse ...

... a black man was attacked by a drunken knife wielding black man. The victim screamed for help and tried to fight off the attacker.

Then, a white cop stumbled unto the scene and instead of using his night stick or can of mace, he started shooting away -- and killed the victim!

As always, white cops don't give a shit about who they are shooting at, especially when they are black.

THIS HAPPENS THROUGHOUT THE USA EACH AND EVERY DAY. HOW CAN SOMEONE TELL ME TO 'GET A LIFE' AND CONCERN MYSELF WITH PEOPLE OVERSEAS WHEN I'M SEEING MY BLACK BROTHERS GETTING SLAUGHTERED EVERY DAY???????

[cali]

14. Can you entertain two thoughts at the same time?

I sure as hell can. Paying attention to problems at home does not mean one can't also pay attention to the injustices people face in other parts of the world. And though I share your concerns, I'm disgusted by how easily you blow off the plight of women, who, truth be told, are still the most discriminated against and oppressed segment of the population, in many parts of the world.

[ismnotwasm]

15. No shit

That whole mind set is bullshit. I live in a so called liberal city where black men get shot far, far too often. I can make some noise about that, write letters, protest, talk about it, I don't let it die as an issue. Ever.

I also live in a liberal city where black women are raped, attacked, drugged, degraded or beaten every single fucking day. It's the world *ALL* women live in and that's just the way it is, until we change it. All women are me, as far as I'm concerned. Racism will always have a negative and deadly effect. Whites who live with their head in the sand need to wake up. We need to do much, much more about it.

But I live in world were women are forced against their will to do a lot of things. Some in my own neighborhood, immigrants in sweatshops and brothels. My world has entire cultures are women hating, or more accurately, women fearing. I look to home, you bet. But I live in the world.
And while I'm at it, I don't know much about this site but pictures speak louder than words at times.
http://activistchat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4985&view=next

[BrendaStarr]

10. Not really

You think the fact that Black men are at risk from our own cops is not as important as stoning women in Iran?

In fact, it is the same thing, but happening in our country and now so called liberals are actually saying things like "Get a life" over it?

You sound like you want Iran invaded. Is that your agenda?

If it is you should be honest about it.

Yes, we certainly do have problems if being "liberal" isn't about righting major racial injustices in our own country.

[struggle4progress]

12. kick

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