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Celebs Publish Open Letter Urging Iran’s Leaders To Free Woman Accused Of Adultery
Every once in a while entertainers think clearly about the geopolitical realities of the world in which we live, and take up an urgent human rights cause. Case in point: In an open letter published on the front page of The Times of London newspaper, more than 80 actors, artists, musicians, academics and politicians called upon Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to release Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, who is sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, as well as her son and lawyer, who are also imprisoned.
The text of the letter reads:
His Excellency Grand Ayatollah Say yid Ali Hoseyni Khamenei, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and His Excellency Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani has suffered enough. Forced by international pressure to suspend her execution by stoning for alleged adultery, the Iranian government is now attempting to resurrect the charge that she murdered her husband - a charge for which she has already been tried.
She has already spent five years in prison, and suffered 99 lashes, while the man who was convicted of her husband's murder, and with whom she allegedly had an affair, is now free, having been pardoned by Ms Ashtiani's children.
We, the undersigned, call on the government of Iran to release immediately Ms Ashtiani, her son Sajad Ghaderzade, and her lawyer, Javid Houtan Kian, from incarceration.
Celebrity signatories include actors Colin Firth, Robert De Niro and Robert Redford; artist Damien Hirst; musicians Sting and Pete Townshend and Nobel literature laureates Wole Soyinka and V.S. Naipaul.
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