„Justiz“ à la Islamische Republik Iran

Die Verurteilung Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtianis zum Tod hat internationale Proteste ausgelöst – vor allem, weil ihr Steinigung droht. Das Regime mußte sich winden und beschwichtigen, das ganze schöne Steinewerfen aufschieben. Kurz:  man war in den Teheraner Henkerskreisen wohl kaum erfreut.

Jetzt hält man sich an ihrem Anwalt Mohammad Mostafaei schadlos. Vielmehr, weil man ihn zum Verhaften nicht gleich angetroffen hat, sind seine Frau und sein Schwager mitgenommen worden.

„It is ridiculous that they [officials] have taken Mostafaei’s family as ransom, they have somehow taken them hostage. This confirms what Sakineh’s son wrote in his public letter, that there’s no justice in Iran,“ said Mina Ahadi, a human rights activist for Iran Committee against Stoning (ICAS), based in Germany who spoke to Mostafaei after he was interrogated.

„Mohammadi Ashtiani’s sentence is not Mostafaei’s first stoning case, he has defended many others against execution by stoning but it was Sakineh’s story which took world attention and made the Iranian authorities angry,“ she said. (Guardian)