Sakineh mohammadi ashtiani stoning video liveleak
Stoning, a form of execution where a group throws stones at a person until they are dead, still happens in parts of the Muslim world, mostly as a punishment.
Despite retracting a confession she said she had been forced to make under duress, Ms. Ashtiani was convicted of “adultery while being married” and sentenced to....
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani
Iranian citizen sentenced to stoning
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani (Persian: سکینه محمدی آشتیانی; born 1967) is an Iranian woman convicted of conspiracy to commit murder and adultery.
She gained international notoriety for originally being sentenced to death by stoning for her crimes.[3][4] Her sentence was commuted and she was released in 2014 after serving nine years on death row.[5]
Biography
Ashtiani is an Iranian Azeri born in Tabriz[2] in the Persian calendar 1347 (1967–1968) and grew up in the rural town of Osku, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran.[6] Sakineh worked outside her home for two years as a kindergarten teacher.[7][8][9]
Arrest and conviction
Ashtiani was arrested in 2005 on charges of adultery and conspiracy to commit murder of her husband.[5] In 2006, the court sentenced her to death by stoning after she was convicted.[10][11&