2010 October 28

Valerie Vaz MP has sent a letter to the President of Iran, urging the President to intervene to ensure that Sakineh Ashtiani is released.  The letter is signed by 119 MPs from all the major parties in Parliament.  Sakineh Ashtiani, who has been in prison since 2005, faces the death penalty, by stoning, as she was convicted of ‘adultery’.  The man convicted of her husband’s murder has already been released by the Iranian authorities.