Nausea.

A sense of outrage has prompted me to re-open this blog after a lapse of over a year.

It’s true that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani will not be stoned, according to the Iranian regime, but her family says that in all likelihood she will be hanged.

This case has only come to the public eye through the intervention of the Sakineh’s son, at great risk to himself. According to the Guardian, Iran has not stoned a woman to death since 2007 when the execution of Mahboubeh M sparked outcry in Iran. She had been forced to confess to adultery.

"They told her that they'll pour boiling wateron her head if she refuses to confess that she had sex with another man except her husband," said Soheila Vahdati, a human rights activist in California. "They executed her in secret and we were all informed when her death sentence was completed."

All this makes me sick to my stomach. I feel impotent; I want to stop these grotesque acts, punish the monsters that commit them in like and all I am able to do is write about it in a blog.

What I -- and you -- can do is join Amnesty International in creating a huge international fuss; donating to the cause; signing the petition.

From the Guardian:

“Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, who has been convicted of adultery in Iran and sentenced to death. Photograph: AP

Iran has imposed a media blackout over the case of a 43-year-old mother of two who was sentenced to be stoned to death and whose fate is still unclear despite an apparent "reprieve".

Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani is still facing execution by hanging after being convicted of adultery, her son told the Guardian today.

Newspapers, agencies and TV channels in Iran have been banned from reporting Mohammadi Ashtiani's death sentence, despite an international campaign launched by her children, which has been joined by politicians and celebrities from all over the world.

The campaign, first highlighted by the Guardian last week, has failed to stop the Iranian authorities from pressing ahead.

Last night the Iranian embassy in London issued an opaque statement saying that Mohammadi Ashtiani would not be stoned to death. "According to information from the relevant judicial authorities in Iran, she will not be executed by stoning punishment," it said.

The statement was not reported inside Iran and neither was the news of stoning death sentences for 15 other Iranians.