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  2. Stoning - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani - Wikipedia

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    Iran Human Rights also expressed concerns over Mehmanparast's statement about "Sakineh's murder charge being investigated for the final verdict". Commenting on this statement, the spokesperson of Iran Human Rights , Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam , says: "The fact that the authorities are mentioning murder charges now could mean that Ashtiani is in ...

  5. Stoning in Islam - Wikipedia

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    Of these countries only Iran, which officially placed a moratorium on stoning in 2002 but still gives leeway to individual judges, has actually carried it out. [19] Saudi Arabia sentenced four people by stoning between the 1980 and 1992. [20]

  6. 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]

  7. Malak Ghorbany - Wikipedia

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    [5] [1] In July 2006, various European and Asian rights organizations participated in coordinated demonstrations held outside Iran's embassies and consulate offices in different cities. In a number of public statements, the protesting organizations condemned stoning executions as a crime against humanity, demanded immediate and unconditional ...

  8. Capital punishment for non-violent offenses - Wikipedia

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    Capital punishment for offenses is allowed by law in some countries. Such offenses include adultery, apostasy, blasphemy, corruption, drug trafficking, espionage, fraud, homosexuality and sodomy not involving force, perjury causing execution of an innocent person (which, however, may well be considered and even prosecutable as murder), prostitution, sorcery and witchcraft, theft, treason and ...

  9. Asieh Amini - Wikipedia

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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]