Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani

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Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani (* 1967 ; Persian سکينه محمدي آشتياني) is an Iranian woman from East Azerbaijan convicted in Iran of adultery and aiding and abetting murder of her husband and sentenced to death by stoning . Her execution , scheduled for July 2010, was initially suspended after international protests. According to human rights activists, the Tehran Supreme Court approved the execution of the death penalty by hanging in early November 2010. A release reported on December 9, 2010 was denied by Iranian broadcaster Press TV on its website. On January 17, 2011, the chairman of the Human Rights Committee in the Iranian Parliament, Sohre Elahian, announced that the sentence had been changed to ten years in prison because of Ms. Ashtiani's child's pardon.

First conviction

Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani's husband, Ebrahim Ghaderzadeh, died in 2005. Local police alleged that Ashtiani gave him a sedative before Ebrahim Ghaderzadeh's cousin Issa Taheri, electrocuted him in the bathroom. Issa Taheri has confessed to the murder and taken all the blame. Ashtiani was convicted by a court in Tabriz on May 15, 2006 , after she was found guilty of an "illicit relationship" with two men (Ali and Nasser Nojoumi) under Iranian law. She was then sentenced to 99 lashes ; this punishment was carried out.

Second process

Her case was brought up again in September 2006 when one of the two men was tried in an appeals court for involvement in the death of Ashtiani's husband. During the trial, Ashtiani withdrew the confession she had made during interrogation before the trial began. She said she was forced to confess and denied that she committed adultery. For two of the five judges, the necessary evidence was lacking for the offense of adultery, three judges judged according to a clause in Iranian criminal law, which may also use “the judge's findings”. Ashtiani was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery at the trial.

The Iranian Supreme Court upheld the death sentence against her on May 27, 2007. The Amnesty Commission rejected two requests for clemency, so that only a pardon by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei could have prevented the execution. The chief judge of East Azerbaijan Province, Malek Ajdar Sharifi, said the sentence would not be carried out for the time being. The verdict was "final and applicable", but was postponed for the time being because of "humanitarian concerns" by the country's highest judge. The Iranian Embassy in London issued a statement on July 8, 2010 that Ashtiani would "not be executed by stoning, according to information provided by the relevant judicial institutions in Iran," which appears to leave open the possibility of execution by another method. Executions in Iran are usually carried out by hanging . Journalists in Iran are banned from reporting the case. In December 2011, judicial authorities indicated that the death sentence could be carried out as a hanging.

Protests

A campaign launched by their two children managed to prevent Mohammadi Ashtiani's immediate execution in July 2010. However, the death sentence was not overturned.

There were public protests against the execution plans in London , Washington, DC and other cities. Human rights groups like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, as well as many Western politicians and celebrities, publicly called for Ashtiani's execution to be stopped.

The Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva offered Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani asylum on the occasion of a campaign speech on August 2, 2010 . In an initial reaction, Iran rejected the offer. After an arrest warrant was issued against him at the end of July 2010, your lawyer Mohammed Mostafai fled to Norway via Turkey and asked for asylum there.

Hundreds of thousands of people, including prominent politicians, artists and actors, have campaigned for Sakineh Ashtiani with various appeals and websites.

Alleged TV confessions

On August 9, 2010, Iranian state television broadcast a statement from Ashtiani, which was reported as her confession. According to her lawyer, Houtan Kian, the testimony was obtained through two days of torture and beatings. Another lawyer Ashtiani said after fleeing Iran to Norway, his client wanted to save her life with this statement. Amnesty International condemned Iran's actions ("Iran invents crime"). The International Committee against Stoning said it was "not the first time innocent victims have been shown on television and then convicted on the basis of the forced confessions".

In a television appearance on September 15, 2010, Ashtiani had denied that her confession was obtained through torture; her children and her lawyer, Kian, also consider this interview to be forced. Kian was arrested on October 10, 2010 together with Ashtiani's son Sajjad Ghaderzadeh and two German journalists.

In another television appearance, broadcast on November 15, 2010, Ashtiani is said to have described herself as a "sinner". Her face was unrecognizable and what she said, according to state television, was simultaneously translated from Azerbaijani Turkish into Farsi.

In early December 2010, Ashtiani was forced to re-enact her husband's murder. She was filmed in the process; the film was broadcast on Iranian state television. This staging caused outrage all over the world again.

At a press conference on January 2, 2011, Ms. Ashtiani spoke to foreign journalists in the northwestern Iranian city of Tabriz. In doing so, she pretended to appear in front of the cameras of her own volition, “to speak to the world”. She wanted to speak because many people had “exploited her case and claimed that she was tortured, which is a lie.” She wanted to sue “those who brought shame on me and the country.” Observers assume that the Convicts were coerced into making these statements, or at least hoped to influence the Iranian judiciary in order to avert the execution of their sentence.

Arrest of German journalists

Two reporters from Bild am Sonntag , Marcus Hellwig and Jens Koch , were arrested by the security authorities on October 10, 2010, one day after entering Iran (without official accreditation). They tried to interview the son and lawyer of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani in the Iranian province of Azerbaijan. Your contact person, who was also supposed to translate the interview over the phone, was the human rights activist Mina Ahadi , who lives in Cologne . Iranian justice spokesman Malek Ajdar Sharifi said, according to the Iranian news agency Fars: "The Germans came to Iran on tourist visas, but their activities here have shown that their aim was espionage and the transmission of information, and this has been proven." a conviction for espionage faces high prison sentences in Iran. On November 16, Iranian television showed an interview with the arrested German journalists and Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, in which all three admitted mistakes. However, it is unclear how voluntarily these statements were made. The Reuters news agency reported on November 16 that Iran had officially charged the arrested reporters with espionage. The federal government tried to get the two journalists released through diplomatic channels. They were finally released on February 19, 2011 and arrived back in Germany accompanied by the then Federal Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle .

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Individual evidence

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  3. ^ Zeit.de of November 18, 2010 Sharia or grace?
  4. ↑ Deadline passed - convicted Iranian woman not yet executed . November 3, 2010. 
  5. ↑ Do human rights apply in the Ashtiani case? . November 3, 2010. 
  6. ↑ Press release from Agence France-Presse
  7. ↑ welt.de of January 17, 2011 Iran suspends Ashtiani death penalty
  8. ↑ FAZ.net of November 10, 2010 The "Sakineh Ashtiani" case
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  10. ↑ spiegel.de
  11. ↑ hrw.org of July 7, 2010 Iran: Prevent Woman's Execution for Adultery
  12. ↑ amnesty.de from July 15, 2010 SAKINEH ASHTIANI CONTINUES IN EXECUTION RISK
  13. ↑ Zeit.de of August 29, 2010 Judicial murder in the name of Allah
  14. ↑ Florian Rötzer: Iran's leadership postpones the stoning of a woman for adultery. telepolis.de, July 12, 2010, accessed on July 17, 2010 .
  15. ↑ Iran denies stoning claims . In: Press TV , July 9, 2010. Accessed July 12, 2010.  (English)
  16. ↑ Dehghan, Saeed Kamali. "Iran imposes media blackout over stoning sentence woman" , The Guardian , July 9, 2010. (English)
  17. ↑ Kurier.at of December 26, 2011 Iran: Hang instead of stone
  18. ↑ Ashtiani is threatened with stoning: “Help us to save our mother”. Stern.de, July 8, 2010, accessed on July 17, 2010 .
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  21. ↑ Lula wants to save Iranian women from the death penalty Spiegel online from August 2, 2010
  22. ↑ otr / apn / AFP: Iranian woman threatened by stoning: lawyer flees to Oslo. In: Spiegel Online . August 8, 2010, accessed May 15, 2020 .
  23. ↑ Examples: Online petition on freesakineh.org ( Memento from August 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (English, with picture by Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani); Heather Reisman (Globe and Mail): Let's get noisy ; Donya Jam (Facebook): Save Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani from being Stoned to Death in Iran
  24. ↑ zeit.de August 12, 2010: Ashtiani faces execution after confessing on TV
  25. ↑ Saeed Kamali Dehghan (The Guardian, September 16, 2010): Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani denies torture claims on Iranian TV
  26. ↑ ICAE: Sajjad Ghaderzadeh and Houtan Kian have been arrested ( Memento of October 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  27. ↑ Spiegel.de from November 15, 2010 Controversial appearance: Iranian TV shows Ashtiani sentenced to death
  28. ↑ rp-online.de (Rheinische POst) from December 14, 2010: Iran presents death row inmate on TV. - Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, sentenced to stoning for adultery, is being used for propaganda purposes. She has to reenact the alleged murder plot on her husband on state television. The cynical display of the 43-year-old causes outrage worldwide.
  29. ↑ Die Zeit.de of January 2, 2011 Sakineh Mohammadi Aschtiani fights for mercy
  30. ↑ Süddeutsche.de of January 2, 2011 Iranian woman sentenced to death accuses journalists
  31. ↑ n-tv.de of November 17, 2010 Hot business: German journalists imprisoned in Iran
  32. ↑ ftd.de of November 16, 2010 ( Memento of December 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Iran accuses German reporters of espionage
  33. ↑ Handelsblatt.com of November 16, 2010 German reporters admit mistakes on Iranian TV
  34. ↑ Spiegel.de of November 16, 2010 charges of espionage: Tehran shows German journalists on TV
  35. ↑ taz.de of November 16, 2010 Imprisoned espionage suspects: Iran shows Germans on television
  36. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung of February 20, 2011 End of the drama in Iran: imprisoned reporters are back home
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SURNAME Mohammadi Ashtiani, Sakineh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian woman, sentenced to death by stoning
DATE OF BIRTH 1967