Executing women

Ambassador Hambley was the first to raise this issue. Then Mehrtash, the famous Iranian blogger, raised the same matter. We will do what we can to follow it up. Mehertash writes:

• Zeinab Jalalian: Based on her membership of a Kurdistan political party she was accused of Fighting God and was given the death penalty. Correction: to be hanged, not stoned.
• Sakineh Mohammadi: To be stoned for having sexual relations with a man outside of wedlock - as they put it 'illicit relations'.

Mehrtash writes: Quite frankly, no 'breach of law' is deserving of death; let alone death by stoning. I suspect the world will sit idly by as two more defenseless women have their flames extinguished by the malicious cold of the IRI regime.
Mehrtash Rastegar LLB (Hons); LLM International Human Rights Law
http://www.seektruthandjustice.blogspot.com/