{"id":55679,"date":"2011-01-18T13:21:30","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T09:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=55679"},"modified":"2011-01-18T13:26:54","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T09:26:54","slug":"iran-suspends-sakinehs-hanging-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/01\/18\/iran-suspends-sakinehs-hanging-sentence.html","title":{"rendered":"Iran Suspends Sakineh&#8217;s Hanging Sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran has suspended a sentence to hang a woman at the center of a global outcry about a separate stoning sentence, a member of parliament was quoted Monday as saying, but another official suggested the comments were false, Reuters reports.<\/p>\n<p>Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani&#8217;s sentence to be stoned for adultery was suspended last year after condemnation from a number of governments, but she had still faced death by hanging for being an accomplice in her husband&#8217;s murder.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, the head of parliament&#8217;s human rights committee, Zohre Elahian, said the hanging had also been suspended due to pleas from her children.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although the stoning sentence has not been finalized yet, the hanging sentence has been suspended due to (her children&#8217;s) pardon,&#8221; the letter said, according to student news agency ISNA.<\/p>\n<p>Ashtiani, who was arrested in 2006, has been sentenced to 10 years&#8217; jail, Elahian said.<\/p>\n<p>Ashtiani&#8217;s son Sajjad Ghaderzadeh told foreign media early this month that she had violated Islamic law but called for compassion and forgiveness.<\/p>\n<p>Later Monday a judicial official cast doubt on Elahian&#8217;s remarks. &#8220;No change or development has happened in the process of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani&#8217;s case and publishing any news in this regard is false,&#8221; Malek Ajdar Sharifi, an official in the province where the case was heard, was quoted as saying by the official IRNA news agency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Her file is being investigated in the national supreme court and her final verdict has not been issued yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani&#8217;s sentence to be stoned for adultery was suspended last year after condemnation from&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[20351,19810,18216],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}