No more direct news of Sakineh. Since her so-called confession, broadcast on television in mid-August, she has been in solitary confinement, in secret, with no contact with the outside world, no contact with her attorney, without visits from her family.
Threatened with stoning--and alone. The sentence hanging over her head, to be executed at any moment--and alone. Happy are those who, calm and filled with the confidence of strong minds, feel capable of telling us that the threat is past, that the Iranians will no longer dare, that there will be no execution. Her former attorney, Mostafaei, knows no such thing. Nor does her new attorney, Houtan Khian. Armin Arefi and I, at Le Règle du Jeu, are in the dark as well. Only one thing, in fact, is sure. The stoning has been suspended, not canceled. And our friends, the Iranian bloggers and human rights activists with whom we are in contact in Tehran, with whom we exchange information, all agree on one point: the evening of Friday, September 10th, the hour of the end of Ramadan, will be the hour of all dangers--starting at that hour, the worst will be, at any instant, possible.
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