Iran stoning woman's son fears imminent execution

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Iran stoning woman's son fears imminent execution

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Iran stoning woman's son fears imminent execution

AFP/Amnesty International – An undated photo of Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani provided by Amnesty International. The adult son of the …/ PARIS (AFP) – The adult son of an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery said Monday that he fears she will be executed shortly after this week's end to the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani's 22-year-old son Sajjad Mohammadi Ashtiani was speaking by telephone to a news conference organised in Paris by the French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy. "Ramadan is coming to ...

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Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani to be lashed over newspaper photograph

Iranian woman facing death for adultery to be whipped despite Times apologising for using picture of another person/ Activists hold a solidarity rally for Sakineh Mohamadi Ashtiani who was convicted of committing adultery and sentenced to being stoned to death. Photograph: Fabio Campana/EPA – ...

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Vatican: stoning in Iran adultery case "brutal"

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VATICAN CITY – The Vatican is raising the possibility of a diplomatic effort to try to spare the life of an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned for adultery. In its first public statement on the case, the Vatican decries stoning as a particularly brutal form of capital punishment. Vatican ...

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Vatican Pressing Iran Over Stoning Case

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Vatican Pressing Iran Over Stoning Case

The Vatican today said it is pressing Iran "through diplomatic channels" to spare the life of an Iranian woman condemned to death by stoning for adultery. The case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother of two convicted of adultery and sentenced to death, has been the subject of ...

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Vatican closely following Iran stoning case

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Vatican closely following Iran stoning case

The Vatican on Sunday said it was closely following the case of an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery and might intervene through its diplomatic channels in support of the woman. The statement came after Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani's son, Sajjad Ghaderzadeh, in an interview ...

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Vatican: Stoning In Iran Adultery Case 'Brutal,' May Try To Save Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani's Life

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Demonstrators hold portraits of Iranian woman Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani during a protest at the Iran embassy in Rome, Sept. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)/ VATICAN CITY — The Vatican raised the possibility Sunday of using behind-the-scenes diplomacy to try to save the life of an Iranian ...

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up over a photograph led to a sentence of 99 lashes for the Iranian woman whose earlier death sentence by stoning from Iranian authorities caused an international outcry, a lawyer for the woman said Sunday./ Filippo Monteforte/Agence France-Presse â Getty Images A recent protest in Rome, part ...

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Vatican May Intervene To Save Iranian Woman In Stoning Case

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A demonstrator holds a picture of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani at a protest in front of the Iranian Embassy in Rome earlier this month./ The Vatican has said it may use its moral authority to try to persuade Iran to spare the life of a woman sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery. In its ...

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PARIS – French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner says he is willing to "do anything" to save an Iranian woman sentenced to death on an adultery conviction and has offered to travel to the Iranian capital to plead her case. Bernard Kouchner calls Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani's sentence to death by ...

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TEHRAN, Iran – The son of an Iranian woman who had faced death by stoning for adultery says authorities have imposed a new sentence of 99 lashes after a British newspaper ran a picture of an unveiled woman and mistakenly identified it as his mother. Sajjad Qaderzadeh, 22, said Monday he did not ...

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TEHRAN, Iran — An Iranian woman who had faced death by stoning for adultery has now received a new sentence of 99 lashes after a British newspaper ran a picture of an unveiled woman mistakenly identified as her, the woman's son said Monday. There was no official confirmation of the new sentence. ...

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