Video | Iranian woman to be stoned

According to information received by the International Committee against Execution, the authorities in Tehran have given the go ahead to the Tabriz prison for the execution of Iran stoning case Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani. It has been reported that she is to be executed this Wednesday.

Ashtiani is an Iranian Azeri woman convicted of adultery and accused of having conspired with the murderer of her husband. Since 2007 she has been under sentence of death according to Islamic Sharia law.

The casefile regarding the murder case of Ashtiani’s husband had been seized from her lawyer’s office, Houtan Kian, and found missing from the prosecutor’s Oskoo branch office so as to stitch Ms Ashtiani up with trumped up murder charges.

Ashtiani’s son, Sajjad Ghaderzadeh, and her lawyer, Houtan Kian, have warned of the regime’s plan to do so on many occasions. With the arrest of Ms Ashtiani’s son and lawyer on 10 October and her not having had any visitation rights since August and after fabricating a new case against her, the Human Rights Commission of the regime had announced that: ‘according to the existing evidence, her guilt has been confirmed.’

In fact, the regime has created a new scenario in order to expedite her execution, the Committee said.