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  2. Stoning - Wikipedia

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    In Iran, the Stop Stoning Forever Campaign was formed by various women's rights activists after a man and a woman were stoned to death in Mashhad in May 2006. The campaign's main goal is to legally abolish stoning as a form of punishment for adultery in Iran.

  3. Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Capital punishment in Iran - Wikipedia

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    Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Iran. [2] The list of crimes punishable by death includes murder; rape; child molestation; homosexuality; drug trafficking; armed robbery; kidnapping; terrorism; burglary; incest; fornication; adultery; sodomy; sexual misconduct; prostitution; [3] [4] plotting to overthrow the Islamic government; political dissidence; sabotage; arson; rebellion ...

  5. Iran sentences a woman to death for adultery, state media say

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    TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian court has sentenced a woman to death for adultery, state media said. A report by the IRAN newspaper on Wednesday said the woman worked as a trainer in a gym for ...

  6. Malak Ghorbany - Wikipedia

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    On 28 June 2006 a court in the northwestern Iranian city of Urmia sentenced Malak Ghorbany to death by stoning for committing adultery. [4] Under Iran's Penal Code, adultery committed by a married person carries the death penalty.

  7. Iran's Supreme Court backs death penalty for Guard volunteer ...

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    Iran's Supreme Court has upheld a death sentence imposed on a member of the all-volunteer wing of the country's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard who stormed a house during the 2022 protests over ...

  8. Human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. Category:Capital punishment in Iran - Wikipedia

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    Prisoners sentenced to death by Iran (1 C, 19 P) Pages in category "Capital punishment in Iran" ... The Stoning of Soraya M.