http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/5050/onslaught_on_women_s_rights_in_iran_0 Comments for "Onslaught on Women’s Rights in Iran, " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/5050/onslaught_on_women_s_rights_in_iran_0 <p> <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2255/2061536333_7d884d3390_o.jpg" alt="" width="275" height="50" /> </p> <p style="text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal"> <strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'">by </span>Lakshmi Anantnarayan and Jacqui Hunt</strong> </p> <p> <a href="http://www.equalitynow.org/english/actions/action_2901_en.html">Kobra Najjar</a> is currently facing <a href="http://www.meydaan.org/stoning/Ritual_Stoning_Punishment.aspx">death by stoning</a>. She is a 44-year-old Iranian woman whose husband subjected her to systematic violence during their marriage, and forced her into prostitution for 12 years in order to sustain his heroin addiction. A &quot;client&quot; of Kobra who sympathised with her plight murdered Kobra&#39;s husband. He was sentenced to death for this murder. However, after enduring 100 lashes for fornication and serving eight years, Habib was released upon paying compensation. Kobra herself was charged with being an accomplice, and also with adultery - the prostitution her husband forced her into - for which she was sentenced to death by stoning. Two years ago, Kobra completed her eight-year sentence for being an accomplice. She now faces the sentence of stoning for the crime of adultery. </p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/5050/onslaught_on_women_s_rights_in_iran_0" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a><p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/5050/onslaught_on_women_s_rights_in_iran_0">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/5050/onslaught_on_women_s_rights_in_iran_0#comment 5050 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:03:16 +0000 35183 at http://www.opendemocracy.net