Urgent Press Release
No. 86-3-a
19 June 2007
URGENT: A Man and a Woman Schedule To Be Stoned on
Thursday, June 21
The news about the scheduled stoning of a man and a
woman in Takistan, Ghazvin, was spread through mobile phone messages and the
Internet. The office of Showraye Tameen of Ghazvin province has issued the order
to stone and man and a woman in public.
The judge of Branch 1 of the Criminal Court of
Takistan will be present in person to throw the first stone. This was scheduled
to be done on Sunday, June 17, but the Office of Showraye Tameen of Ghazvin
province postponed it to Thursday, June 21.
Mokarrameh Ebrahimi is a 43 year old woman and mother
of an 11 year old who has spent the past 11 years in Choubin prison in Ghazvin
after being sentenced to stoning. The father of the child has also been in
prison for 11 years and is scheduled to be stoned with her.
According to the Meydaan, the official site of the
Stop Stoning Forever Campaign, an informed source has verified the news and
added that “the pits are dug and prepared in Behesht Zahra cemetery to implement
the sentence.”
This source also added that the sentence has been
issued solely based on the judge’s knowledge, and there have been no witnesses
to the so called crime of adultery and having a child out of wedlock. It seems
that the couple have lived together for a while and shortly after been
imprisoned. There are different rumors about the woman’s past. Some say that her
husband had thrown her out of the house and she had been living with her mother
for two years. Both the man and the woman have children from their previous
marriages. Mokarrameh, who is the mother of three children, is very distressed
and in sever disarray in prison.
It seems that after the appeal to the Judicial
Commission for Amnesty and Clemency had been rejected, it is going to be carried
out as the result of the perseverance of one of the judiciary officials in
Ghazvin.
The official announcement about the stoning is going
to be posted at the site of execution in order to invite the public to
participate in the process in Takistan. This is while the Iranian officials
continue to deny any stoning sentence.
The Stop Stoning Forever Campaign activists plea to
the citizens of the world to take any actions they possibly can in order to stop
the stoning of this couple from taking place.
Further detailed information will be provided as
campaign activists are trying to obtain more knowledge about the case in
Takistan. To contact campaign activists in the US or Iran
please email Soheila Vahdati <soheilavahdati@gmail.com>
or Shadi Sadr <shadisadr@gmail.com>.