[Daily Nation (Kenya)] An Iranian woman sentenced to be buried alive under a pile of rocks for adultery was not killed today as had been feared, but she remains on the murder short list, an Iranian activist told AFP, citing unnamed sources in Iran."Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani was not bumped off today," exiled human rights activist Mina Ahadi from the International Committee Against Stoning told AFP by phone in Germany, where she lives.
It's a sad world we live in when we have an actual "International Committee Against Stoning." I'll be it has an interlocking directorate with the International Committee against Autos-da-fe and the Anti-Crucifixion League.
"Execution time (for the day) has now passed, so it won't happen today (Wednesday). But the blood thirst remains and it could still happen at any time." Ahadi and French human rights activists had voiced fears on Tuesday that the mother-of-two, 43, could be executed as early as Wednesday, prompting concern from the European Union and the United States, among others. "Certain countries, like France, Britain, Italy, the EU, with its representative Catherine Ashton, and the United States reacted very well on Tuesday," Ahadi said.
Did they do anything other than emit verbiage?
"Some countries have been in contact with Iranian government representatives. It is clear that all this attention played a role," she added. "But the execution has been delayed, not cancelled."
She said that according to sources in Iran, Mohammadi-Ashtiani's name was on a shortlist of people to be executed in the coming days or weeks drawn up by Iran's Supreme Court. This was communicated by letter to the prison in Tabriz, northwest Iran, where she is being held, Ahadi added.