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Apparently because of international outrage over the stoning of her male partner last year, indicating that international pressure works. "Woman escapes stoning for adultery," from Agence France-Presse (thanks to JE):
IRAN has freed a woman convicted of adultery who faced being stoned to death like her male partner whose execution by stoning last year caused international outrage, her lawyer said today.Mokarrameh Ebrahimi, who had spent a total of 11 years behind bars, was released from a prison in the city of Qazvin last night on the orders of Iranian judiciary's amnesty commission, lawyer Shadi Sadr said.
She was freed along with the son she had conceived with her partner Jafar Kiani, whose stoning in July 2007 was carried out by the local authorities in apparent defiance of the central judiciary.
Under Iran's Islamic law, adultery is still theoretically punishable by stoning, which involves the public hurling stones at the convict buried up to his waist.
But a 2002 directive by judiciary chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi imposed a moratorium on such executions.
Kiani's stoning in a village in the northwestern Qazvin province was the first such stoning to be confirmed in years.
"It was a rare ruling," Mr Sadr said of the surprise release.
"She still could not believe she was pardoned," Mr Sadr said, adding that Ebrahimi had now returned with her son Ali to her family in northern Iran.
Posted by Robert at March 18, 2008 6:41 AM
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Are we to assume her innocent son was in jail with her all this time? How dreadful. Eleven years for adultery! But at least she has been spared from death by stoning.
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at March 18, 2008 7:04 AM
Is this the wonderful Sharia law Noah Feldman was talking about?
Posted by: Elric66 at March 18, 2008 7:30 AM
"...hurling stones at the convict buried up to his waist."
Because if he can get out, he can live.
Of course, since Islam is such a beau ideal for equal rights, the women get buried up to their necks... Needless to say, the women aren't getting out...
Cheers
Posted by: Doctor Bulldog at March 18, 2008 7:35 AM
Islam "elevates" women. It gave them rights. The right to be killed by any family member with a "grudge". The right to wear cloth Hefty bags. The right to never leave the house. The right to be married to men 30 or 40 years older then they are. The right to have up to three co-wives. They get to inherit half of what their brothers do. Free at home circumcisions. A muslim women's testimony in court is worth half that of a man.
"She still could not believe she was pardoned," Mr Sadr said.....
Yep, but she was freed despite Shar'ia, not because of it.
Posted by: tanstaafl at March 18, 2008 8:22 AM
Yet another example of why westerners should not be afraid to criticise and condemn such actions in the Muslim world-it saves lives.
Posted by: margheri at March 18, 2008 8:33 AM
What will her family do to her though?
Posted by: Borg at March 18, 2008 10:10 AM
She'll end up dead anyway. Chalk up another "honor killing" in the near future by her ever loving family.
Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS at March 18, 2008 11:14 AM
Back to the same village where he lover was stoned? Oh, that bodes well, doesn't it?
I'm betting she's not long for this world now.
at March 18, 2008 9:36 PM
Back to the same village where he lover was stoned? Oh, that bodes well, doesn't it?
I'm betting she's not long for this world now.
at March 18, 2008 9:36 PM
She was freed along with the son she had conceived with her partner Jafar Kiani, whose stoning in July 2007 was carried out by the local authorities in apparent defiance of the central judiciary.
Under Iran's Islamic law, adultery is still theoretically punishable by stoning, which involves the public hurling stones at the convict buried up to his waist.
.....................................
"Theoretically"?
Is this theoretical in the same manner that one may be arrested for feeding alcohol to a moose in Fairbanks, Alaska, or fined for wearing suspenders in Nogales, Arizona, or prohibited from using underwear as carwash rags in my own hometown of San Franicisco, California? All of these crazy old laws and more are still on the books, but it is unlikely that they will ever be enforced.
How, then, was Jafar Kiani stoned to death just a few short months ago? If the authorities acted in an extra-judicial manner--effectively lynching Kiani--what are the assurances that the same thing will not happen to Mokarrameh Ebrahimi? Certainly, she herself was surprised to escape the sentence of stoning, which apparently hung over this poor woman's head for *eleven years*.
More barbarism, only mitigated by pressure from the civilized world. Pity it could not save Kiani from a horrifying death.
Posted by: gravenimage at March 18, 2008 10:33 PM
Graven image: Great post. I skimmed right over that word "theoretically."
Posted by: former liberal WF at March 19, 2008 5:22 PM
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