Hearing for Sakineh Ashtiani Postponed Again

Fox News spoke with Mission Free Iran about the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the 43-year-old mother of two who has been sentenced to death by stoning in Iran for alleged adultery.

Ashtiani was supposed to have a court hearing today in Iran. For the third consecutive time, according to Maria Rohaly of Mission Free Iran, this has been put off.

Rohaly has also heard from sources in Iran that the offices of Ashtiani’s lawyer, Houtan Kian, have been ransacked.

Rohaly says the regime keeps postponing Ashtiani’s hearing, in the hopes that the media attention to this case will fade away. But she adds, “We won’t fade away.”

A campaign to save Ashtiani has also been going on in France. A number of high profile politicians and intellectuals have written open letters in support of Ashtiani. First Lady Carla Bruni writes,

““France will not abandon you.” Bruni, whose words were quoted in the French media continues,

“Please know from within your cell that my husband will plead ceaselessly for your release and that France will not abandon you.”

“How can I remain silent after learning of the sentence which has been pronounced against you?” asked Bruni, in reference to the court’s judgment ordering her to be stoned to death.

“Your eyes, full of pain and dignity, your forehead, your mind, your spirit…transformed into targets for stone throwers, to be pulverized to pieces….I just can’t see what good could come out of this macabre ceremony, whatever the judicial reasons put forward to justify it. Shed your blood and deprive children of their mother, why? Because you have lived, because you have loved, because you’re a woman and because you’re Iranian? Everything within me refuses to accept this.”

Ashtiani is currently being held in prison in Tabriz, Iran.