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Amini founded the 'Stop Stoning Forever Campaign' in October 2006. She worked together with a well known feminist from Iran and two writers from outside the country who could publish without censorship. [1] She is fighting gender-based injustices in Iran's judicial system and is advocating for an end to stoning as a form of execution. [4]
The method of stoning set out in the 2008 code was similar to that in a 1999 version of Iran's penal code. [42] Iran revised its penal code in 2013. The new code does not include the above passages, but does include stoning as a hadd punishment. [ 24 ]
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani (Persian: سکینه محمدی آشتیانی; born 1967) is an Iranian woman convicted of conspiracy to commit murder and adultery.She gained international notoriety for originally being sentenced to death by stoning for her crimes.
A new family law was annulled, and veiling became obligatory. [24] Farrokhrou Parsa, the first woman to serve in the Iranian cabinet, was executed. [22] [25] The veiling law was met with protests comprising heterogeneous groups of women. The demonstrations did not aim to expand women's rights in Iran, but simply to keep what they had already ...
Stoning. Stoning is the form of execution for only one crime in Iran - adultery. [81] From 1980 to 2009 150 people were reportedly stoned to death in Iran, [citation needed] but in 2002, authorities placed a moratorium on this form of execution. [81] As of 2018, women were still being sentenced to stoning in Iran. [82]
Shamemeh Malak Ghorbany (also known as Malek Ghorbani) is an Iranian woman, from the suburbs of the town of Naqdeh (province of west Azerbaijan) who was sentenced to death by stoning for allegedly having committed adultery. [1] She is the mother of two children, a girl named Someyeh and a son, Ahmad. [2]
'sharia'), prescribes death by stoning for sex acts between men (in abeyance under a moratorium, which may be lifted without warning at any time), [15] De facto penalty: Seven years in prison and 30 lashes for married men. Iran. [16] [17] Male-male anal intercourse is declared a capital offense in Iran's Islamic Penal Code, enacted in 1991 ...
[1] He gained international recognition for his novel La Femme Lapidée, in 1990, about Soraya Manutchehri, which was translated four years later as The Stoning of Soraya M.: A True Story. The book became the basis for screenplay of the 2008 film The Stoning of Soraya M., in which the American actor James Caviezel portrays Sahebjam.