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Stoning Averted for Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, Iran's Alleged Adultress

The Iranian government backed down under international pressure from carrying out a death sentence by stoning of a woman convicted of adultery, a victory for human-rights activists, but far from the final act in the ongoing drama between the forces of modernism and a perverted and outdated interpretation of Islamic fundamentalism. The woman, 43-year-old Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, remains in jail with her punishment uncertain. She has already been in prison for five years and received 99 lashes for an "illicit relationship" that she confessed to at the time, but later recanted, saying she was ...

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