The Systematic Repression of the Women’s Rights Movement — May 2008

An International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran report on the various dimensions of the repression of women’s rights activists in Iran.

Two Executed by Stoning, as a Third Escapes

(3 January 2009) Three men were subjected to stoning sentences on 25 December 2008, in the Behesht Zahra Cemetery in the City of Mashad, according to local sources, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. Two were stoned to death, while a third, an Afghani national, apparently managed to escape from the hole in which he was partially buried. His fate is unknown.

The stonings contradict an official claim that Iranian authorities had put an end to the practice, a form of capital punishment considered barbaric by the international community.

Emad Baghi’s “The Bloodied Stone”

Emad Baghi’s piece “The Bloodied Stone” on the lawfulness within Islamic jurisprudence of stoning executions.