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UK: Forced Marriage by Extremists

(UK) Muslim mother who sent her school age daughters to Pakistan to marry their cousins is jailed for 3 years
— “The woman then altered documents to make it appear her daughters were
18 and then forced her daughters to marry.”
— “During the girls’ ordeal their mother from Manchester told her eldest daughter that unless she consumated the marriage, she would ‘tie her to the bed, blindfold her and strip her’ and watch to make sure she had sex with her new husband.”
— “The grooms-to-be then tied the knot with the two terrified sisters in a
joint ceremony as their mother looked on before the girls were forced to become their new husbands’ sex slaves.”

Thailand: Youth Say NO to Violence against Women in Thailand

Thailand: Youth Say NO to Violence against Women in Thailand
— May 19, 2009 – “Following the collection of over three million signatures in Thailand for the Say NO to Violence Against Women campaign, UNIFEM Goodwill Ambassador HRH Princess Bajrakitiyabha on 18 May launched the school-based Youth Say NO to Violence Against Women programme, organized by UNIFEM in collaboration with the Office of the Basic Education Commission (OBEC), the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Justice.”

“The Stoning of Soraya M” – Theater Listing for June 26 Premiere

Initial Listing of Nationwide theaters where “The Stoning of Soraya M.” is scheduled to be shown, premiering June 26, 2009:

Boston – Norfolk County
Chestnut Hill/Brookline CFB W Newton Cinema 6
Boston – Middlesex County
Cambridge LNDMRK Kendall Square Cinema
New York – NY-Manhattan
East Side JACOBS Beekman
Village LNDMRK Sunshine Cinema
Philadelphia
Philadelphia LNDMRK Ritz 5 Movies
Washington DC
Union Station LNDMRK E Street Cinema
Fairfax Va JACOBS Cinema Art Theatre
Falls Church Va AMC Shirlington 7
Chicago
Near North LNDMRK Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema
Detroit
Art LNDMRK Main Art Theatre
Minneapolis/St Paul
Edina (S) LNDMRK Edina 4
Dallas – Houston
Angelika CITY Angelika Film Center
Denver
Southeast LNDMRK Chez Artiste
Los Angeles – LA-Westside
Santa Monica Art LEMMLE Monica 4 Plex
Los Angeles – LA-West Hollywood
West Hollywood Art LEMMLE Music Hall
Los Angeles – LA-San Fernando Valley
Encino LEMMLE Town Center 5
Los Angeles – LA-Glendale/Pasadena
Old Town 1 LEMMLE Playhouse 7 Cinemas
Los Angeles – LA-Orange County
Irvine – West Park REGAL Westpark 8 Cinemas
San Francisco
Art LNDMRK Embarcadero Center Cinema 5
San Francisco – SF-San Jose
San Jose Art NYBLOM Camera 3
San Francisco – SF-East Bay
Berkeley LNDMRK Shattuck Cinemas 10
San Francisco – SF-Marin County
Marin County Art PFR Smith Rafael Film Center

(Iran) Stephen McEveety produces ‘Stoning of Soraya M.’

(Iran) Stephen McEveety produces ‘Stoning of Soraya M.’
— “Producer Stephen McEveety’s new film depicts a modern stoning in Iran”
— “adapted from the 1994 nonfiction of the same name by the French-Iranian journalist Freidoune Sahebjam, who traveled to a small Iranian village in the mid-1980s and came across the story of an innocent woman stoned to death over concocted charges of infidelity”
— “The fabricated charge was adultery, which under the town leaders’ judgment was a crime not only against her husband but also Islam. The penalty was death by public stoning, and nothing Zahra or Soraya could do or say would stop it. ‘It is God’s law,’ one person says, while the local mullah says, ‘With each stone you throw, your honor will return.'”
— “Director and co-writer Cyrus Nowrasteh spares little in depicting the execution, in which Soraya is buried to her chest with her arms bound, and pelted with heavy rocks from close range until she bleeds to death.”

— Web Site for ‘The Stoning of Soraya M.’

— The Stoning of Soraya M. (Hardcover) – by Freidoune Sahebjam (Author)

— The Stoning of Soraya M. [Theatrical Release]

— The Stoning of Soraya M. (2009) Final Trailer 1