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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 ...
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.
[21] [22] Since the Sharia legal system was introduced in northern Nigeria in 2000, more than a dozen Muslims have been sentenced to death by stoning. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] [ 25 ] In one case, an appellate court in the state of Sokoto overturned a stoning sentence on the basis that divorced defendant might not have conceived her child in zina ...
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]
[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 ...
In Greece (only in Thrace), Indonesia (outside of Aceh, and in most circumstances), Nigeria (outside the states using Sharia law), Senegal (only in inheritance), and in the UK (in extrajudicial courts judgments and not the British legal system) people can choose whether to pursue a case in a Sharia or secular court.
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]
Mozhan Marno played the title role in the 2008 film The Stoning of Soraya M., about a woman whose husband falsely accuses her of adultery, resulting in her death by stoning. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] In addition she has had roles in a number of television series including The Paul Reiser Show , The Glades , Hung , The Mentalist , Bones , The Unit , Medium ...