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"Madam President, a debate has just taken place, but I would like once again to call attention to the situation of Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, who has been sentenced to death by the Iranian Government and who is threatened each day with execution by the utterly barbaric ritual of stoning.
Last weekend, she was sentenced to an additional 99 lashes for the publication in a British newspaper of a photograph of a woman with her head uncovered. However, the photograph was of a different woman, and the newspaper’s apologies have done nothing to change this new sentence. A large solidarity movement has come together to save Mrs Mohammadi-Ashtiani and to denounce these despicable practices.
What country, in the 21st century, can write in black and white in its penal code the size of the stones that should be thrown at a convicted prisoner in order to kill them? Iran is that country.
Only the involvement of the international and political community has been able to prevent stoning over the last few years, and it alone will be able to make the Iranian Government give way. We have a duty, as politicians, as citizens, as human beings, to prevent what is nothing less than a murder. I therefore call for the European Union to take action to save Mrs Mohammadi-Ashtiani."@en1
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