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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.
Stoning, or lapidation, is a method of capital punishment where a group throws stones at a person until the subject dies from blunt trauma. It has been attested as a form of punishment for grave misdeeds since ancient times. Stoning appears to have been the standard method of capital punishment in ancient Israel [citation needed]. Its use is ...
Stoning to death is controversial in Iran, and often used against women. In 2010 there was strong international criticism of Iran because of the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani. Ashtiani was freed in March 2014, after nine years on death row. [5] Another Iranian woman, Fariba Khalegi, is believed to be in prison and in danger of stoning. [4]
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 females. The husband ...
Mohammad Mostafaei (Persian: محمد مصطفایی, born 1974 [1]) is an Iranian human rights lawyer specializing in death penalty cases, particularly those with juvenile defendants and other human rights cases. In 2010, he moved to Norway, having left Iran due to alleged persecution by authorities for his defense of Sakineh Mohammadi ...
I said the untrue words in court before realizing by doing so I would incriminate myself.” [3] 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.
The video was declared an "obscene video clip that offended the public morals and was released in cyberspace," by Tehran's police chief Hossein Sajedinia, [277] and "vulgar" by state media. Authorities forced the young people to repent on state TV, [ 277 ] but later released them, possibly because of public opposition to the arrests. [ 278 ]
He also stated that contested pregnancy is also sufficient proof of adultery and any Muslim woman who is pregnant by a man who she is not married to, at the time of getting pregnant, must be stoned to death. [3] [36] Later Maliki Muslim scholars admitted the concept of "sleeping embryo", where a divorced woman could escape the stoning ...