First lady hails release of Iranian facing stoning.

[Ropey]

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OTTAWA — Canada's First Lady Maureen Harper on Thursday hailed the reported release of an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, saying she had been freed "from her unjust imprisonment."

"I am heartened today to hear the news reports that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani has apparently been freed from her unjust imprisonment," Harper said in a statement.

"While today's news is encouraging, there is more that must be done to improve the lives of women in Iran," she added. "It remains my hope that women in Iran may one day enjoy the same benefits, rights and freedoms that we are so fortunate to have here in Canada."

Earlier photographs were released of Sakineh, 43, while on home leave last week but without any official Iranian confirmation of a report that she had been freed.

In Germany, a campaign group said she had been released, along with her son and lawyer. "We have got news from Iran that they are free," Mina Ahadi, spokeswoman for the Anti-Stoning Committee, told AFP.

But there was no confirmation from the authorities in Tehran or the state media.

Sakineh was initially given death sentences by two different courts in the northwestern city of Tabriz in separate trials in 2006.

A sentence to hang for her involvement in the murder of her husband was commuted to a 10-year jail term by an appeals court in 2007.

But a second sentence of death by stoning on charges of adultery levelled over several relationships, notably with the man convicted of her husband's murder, was upheld by another appeals court the same year.

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Canada Rocks!

 

[R.C. Christian]

No, Canada really doesn't rock, it's just canada but I digress.

 

[Ropey]

No, Canada really doesn't rock, it's just canada but I digress.

What can I say. I do love Canada. It might not rock for you, but it rocks for me.

 

[R.C. Christian]

Too cold eh..LOL.

 

[xotoxi]

Canada is really nice.

It makes for a nice hat for America.

 

[Ropey]

Too cold eh..LOL.

Can't argue that, but I'm in one of the warmest part of the Canadian mainland. Still....

I wanna go to Myyyyy Aaaaammmm Eeeee.....

Canada is really nice.

It makes for a nice hat for America.

Hmmm...

Well, in 1814 we took a little trip...

 

[Jos]

First lady hails release of Iranian facing stoning.

Not that you care much for the Iranians, that you want the USA to bomb for Israel

 

[Ropey]

First lady hails release of Iranian facing stoning.

Not that you care much for the Iranians, that you want the USA to bomb for Israel

I would far rather have Iran stop building towards a nuclear military pile but I know you believe Iran's nuclear program is entirely peaceful, correct?

 

[Jos]

Iran has signed up to the NPT inspections Israel, however has not

The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, also Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT or NNPT) is a treaty to limit the spread (proliferation) of nuclear weapons. The treaty came into force on 5 March 1970, and currently there are 189 states party to the treaty, five of which are recognized as nuclear weapon states: the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, and China (also the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council).

Four non-parties to the treaty are known or believed to possess nuclear weapons: India, Pakistan and North Korea have openly tested and declared that they possess nuclear weapons, while Israel has had a policy of opacity regarding its own nuclear weapons program. North Korea acceded to the treaty, violated it, and in 2003 withdrew from it.

The treaty was proposed by Ireland and Finland, and they were the first to sign.[citation needed]

The NPT consists of a preamble and eleven articles. Although the concept of "pillars" is not expressed anywhere in the NPT, the treaty is nevertheless sometimes interpreted as a three-pillar system, with an implicit balance among them:

1. non-proliferation,
2. disarmament, and
3. the right to peacefully use nuclear technology.[1]
Article IV: 1. Nothing in this Treaty shall be interpreted as affecting the inalienable right of all the Parties to the Treaty to develop research, production and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes without discrimination and in conformity with Articles I and II of this Treaty.

2. All the Parties to the Treaty undertake to facilitate, and have the right to participate in, the fullest possible exchange of equipment, materials and scientific and technological information for the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. Parties to the Treaty in a position to do so shall also co-operate in contributing alone or together with other States or international organizations to the further development of the applications of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, especially in the territories of non-nuclear-weapon States Party to the Treaty, with due consideration for the needs of the developing areas of the world.

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
the right to peacefully use nuclear technology

 

[Ropey]

Of course. One can choose to hit themselves in the head with a hammer.

It is permitted.