Background: Help! Help! Help! The stoning will take place in a few hours!
Fars news agency, which is state-run, reported this today,
The stoning verdict will not be carries out. The head of Qzvin Judiciary stated “According to an order from the head of the Judiciary, the stoning of these two individuals will not be carried out”…A source in the Judiciary mentioned “Following the issue of the stoning verdict, the planing was started. Late last night, the local head of the Judiciary gave a restrict order to stop this verdict. He has blamed the involved people for such a verdict.
Fars finishes with “Some websites and media sources had reported about the stoning, referring to a women’s activist”. That’s the Iranian blogestan showing its power. People in Balatarin started calling everywhere. The result? The stoning is canceled and the news has started to spread out. The Norwegian Foreign Minister summoned the Iranian ambassador and Amnesty International issued an appeal.
One, more, for us! :)
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Pingback by Kamangir (Archer) - کمانگیر » Blog Archive » Help! Help! Help! The stoning will take place in a few hours! (Updated IV) — June 20, 2007 @ 3:15 pm
When I read the source text in fars news, at first they say, the news was not true at all and then they say they have prepared for the event!!! I do’t get it; why would they get ready to do something that is not a news in the first place?
Comment by Anegl — June 20, 2007 @ 5:32 pm
Good job,Kamangir,try to write the complete story on.
Comment by Carlos — June 20, 2007 @ 8:50 pm
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Pingback by Stoning Cancelled Thanks to Blogosphere — June 20, 2007 @ 10:27 pm
Saluting the “power of the people”!
Comment by Frieda — June 20, 2007 @ 11:30 pm
Hurra for bloggers in Iran!!!
That’s a great news. *jumps up and down*
Comment by ella — June 21, 2007 @ 3:03 am
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A very interesting website! Good work, and Peace be upon you.
Comment by Abdel Nur — June 22, 2007 @ 9:52 pm
This was really great news. I linked to your site since you seemed to have the news first.
You might enjoy this picture. I’m not sure if we are always going to agree, but you might just find this humorous, politics aside.
http://paleo.wordpress.com/2007/06/23/who-really-runs-the-show-in-iran/
Comment by paleo — June 23, 2007 @ 8:30 pm
From The Religion Of Peace…
These photos are from Michell Malkin’s blog. Michelle gives a challenge to Amnesty International, and the progressive left to post these pictures on their blogs, so the world can see how Iran is treating those that don’t do what the Muslim moral……
Trackback by On the Right — June 25, 2007 @ 3:46 am
Kamangir, so far nearly 15 000 norwegians have signed a petition.
Exerpt: “Nevertheless, we are disturbed by the fact that your decision is only a temporary measure, and that Mokarrameh Ebrahimi and her male co-defendant are still sentenced to death and risk execution by stoning or another method in the future.”
See the whole thing here:
http://www.opprop.no/opprop.php?id=ebrahimi
The Norwegian Parliaments foreign policy committee (not sure about the proper translation) is in Iran right now, and will give the petition to a “newly created Iranian human rights group”.
Link in norwegian: http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/2007/06/25/504484.html
Comment by Per — June 25, 2007 @ 5:13 pm
Let me get this straight…
The Governor of a province in Iran reversed the decision of a judge to execute a man because some people said mean things about it on the internet.
Iran has way more issues than I previously thought.
Comment by Munafiq — June 25, 2007 @ 11:33 pm
I admire your angle of look.
Comment by hajiwashington — June 26, 2007 @ 1:01 pm
Munafiq
You got it wrong.
Judiciary wanted to stone man and a woman (btw. woman does not count for you?). Bloggers got the info about it out on the internet. People in Iran started to call their government protesting this execution. However, bloggers are also read by international audience. As the stoning to death relates in minds of most people with savagery, barbarism and inhumanity people outside Iran took notice and started to protest. That made government of IRI to reverse, although temporarily, this decision.
Iran has many problems but the government of IRI do not like people to think that in some aspects they are straight out of the middle ages.
They prefer that no-one knows the sad truth ;-)
Kamangir: Good clarification Ella. Thanks.
Comment by ella — July 2, 2007 @ 2:00 am