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Stonings : News Reports

Six young women have been publicly stoned to death in Iran after a court found them guilty of adultery and prostitution. According to Salam newspaper, Kheirollah Javanmard, Ali Mokhtarpour, Parviz Hassanzadeh, Fataneh Danesh, Massumeh Einy and Marziyeh Falah were stoned to death in public in Khazar Abad, near the Caspian Sea on the afternnon of the 11th November. Article 119 of the Law of Hodoud and Qesas states, "In the punishment of stoning to death, the stones should not be too large so that the person dies on being hit by one or two of them; they should not be so small either that they could not be defined as stones." The cruelty in this article and the other articles of the Hodoud and Qesas law shocks any concerned human being.

Married woman stoned to death for adultery in Iran Reuters, February 1, 1994 Tehran, Feb. 1(Reuters) - A married Iranian woman was stoned to death in Tehran's Evin prison for adultery and planning her husband's murder, a newspaper reported on Tuesday. Women Stone to Death Pejvak Radio, (Sweden) - Persian Broadcast,February 2, 1994 Yesterday a woman was stoned to death for adultery and conspiracy to kill her husband. Keyhan newspaper yesterday wrote that her lover would be executed today for the murder of her husband. Iranian adulteress stoned to death Reuters, March 3,1994 An Iranian woman convicted of adultery was stoned to death in the holy Moslem city of Qom, a daily newspaper reported.

Afghan Woman Stoned to Death for Spending Time with Non-Relative Early on March 29th, Taliban religious rulers stoned an Afghan woman to death who had spent time with a man who was not one of her relatives. The young woman attempted to leave the country with the man but was caught and stoned to death for violating strict Islamic law imposed by the Taliban which states that a woman found with a man not in her family faces the death penalty. The Taliban-run radio Shariat did not comment on whether or not the woman had a trial or what, if anything, happened to the man. Under the Taliban’s extremist rule, women are not allowed to work, attend school, or spend anytime out of the house unless they wear an all-enveloping burqa.

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