Son Pleads for Mother's Life

[Damocles]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/07/06/iran.stoning/index.html?section=cnn_latest

(CNN) -- Sajjad Mohammedie Ashtiani travels to a Tabriz jail in Iran every Monday to see his mother.

And for 15 minutes each week, he speaks to his mother, Sakine Mohammedie Ashtiani, through the prison glass that divides them.

Neither mother nor son ever know if the visit will be their last.

Convicted of adultery in 2006, Ashtiani has been sentenced to be stoned to death for her alleged crime.

Originally sentenced to 99 lashes for her alleged "illicit relationship outside of marriage," Ashtiani endured that punishment in front of her then 17-year-old son.

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[RockX]

Kind of makes you wonder what the UN was thinking when they elected Iran to its Commission on the Status of Women, in which stoning is enshrined in law and lashings are required for women judged "immodest." Of course Obama said nothing of it for fear of hurting their feelings. Maybe they can have a beer summit and figure out if she should be stoned or not.