Stoning

The "End of Stoning": Islamic Republic Style

Shadi Sadr | Posted 05.12.2012

Shadi Sadr

Stoning has been removed from the section of the code dealing with penalties for 'adultery.' However, sexual relation outside of marriage remains a crime.

Iran Set To Stone Woman To Death For Adultery

AP | By ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 12.25.2011

TEHRAN, Iran -- Authorities in Iran said Sunday they are again moving ahead with plans to execute a woman sentenced to death by stoning on an adultery...

Women Own 1% of the World's Property -- Occupy That

Soraya Chemaly | Posted 01.04.2012

Soraya Chemaly

How much poorer do we want women to get in the world? It's really hard to imagine. Despite the successes of feminists during the past century, even in the U.S. we have a persistent and growing feminization of poverty.

Blasphemy and 'Sharia' Laws: Legitimizing Corruption and Cognitive Dissonance in Muslim Lands

Yursil Kidwai | Posted 05.25.2011

Yursil Kidwai

It is high time for Muslims to accept that what is making Muslim states un-Islamic isn't a possible repeal of blasphemy laws.

Shame on You, Press TV

Bill Shipsey | Posted 05.25.2011

Bill Shipsey

Does no journalist at Press TV question or get to question the journalistic ethics of taking a person condemned to death and inviting them to incriminate themselves in a crime for which they have already been convicted?

Are We Accomplices to Violence Against Women?

Navi Pillay | Posted 05.25.2011

Navi Pillay

The numbers are of pandemic proportions -- so large that, perversely, they distract us from the plight of the woman next door. Are we unconsciously shrugging it off as 'normal'?

Young Man Defies Iranian Regime's Attempt to Kill His Mother - People of Goodwill Can Show Support

Heather Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Heather Robinson

Sajjad Ghaderzah, 22, the son of Sakineh Ashtiani, an Iranian woman the regime has sentenced to death by stoning, has been "severely tortured" and rem...

And to Think That We Still Have to Argue Against the Death Penalty

Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 05.25.2011

Bernard-Henri Lévy

There's Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, of course, condemned to be stoned and waiting, for the past four years, along with 23 other Iranians, to know if s...

Were Sakineh's Son and Attorney Arrested?

Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 05.25.2011

Bernard-Henri Lévy

I scarcely dare imagine -- in truth, I cannot imagine -- the intellectual contortions Iranian "justice" will have to go through to justify such an extreme, arbitrary act.

There's No Stoning in Iran? Prove it, Mr. President

Marie-Josee Kravis | Posted 05.25.2011

Marie-Josee Kravis

He came, he lied, he chuckled and he accused the West of fabricating a story about Sakinieh Mohamadi Ashtiani's death sentence by stoning. "Stoning does not exist in Iran," said Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Iranian Women Stand Against Misogynist Ahmadinejad

Soona Samsami | Posted 05.25.2011

Soona Samsami

Those who now callously argue that criticism of the Iranian regime amounts to a preparation for war only serve to provide the regime with the "moral" cover it needs to continue its human rights atrocities.

Iran Stoning Sentence Stirs Internal Debate Of Koranic Interpretation, Foreign Policy Issues

TIME | Posted 05.25.2011

Iran's hard-line government holds fast to the belief that relenting under international pressure is a great blunder because, ultimately, it just invit...

Sakineh Ashtiani & Iran's Media Blackout: No Coverage Of Adultery Death Sentence

The Guardian | Saeed Kamali Dehghan | Posted 05.25.2011

Newspapers, agencies and TV channels in Iran have been banned from reporting Mohammadi Ashtiani's death sentence, despite an international campaign la...

Who's Afraid of Shariah?

Sumbul Ali-Karamali | Posted 05.25.2011

Sumbul Ali-Karamali

How many of those anti-Islam protesters holding "No Sharia Law" signs (as if anyone were advocating shariah law in the U.S.) actually know what the word means? I'd say, oh, none.

Afghan Stoning

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011

Jeff Danziger

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Couple Stoned To Death By Taliban

AP | AMIR SHAH | Posted 05.25.2011

KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban militants in northern Afghanistan stoned a young couple to death for adultery, which a rights group said was the fi...

Sakineh Must Not Be Stoned

Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 05.25.2011

Bernard-Henri Lévy

Iran is endowed with a culture as magnificent as it is immemorial, and it cannot see itself summed up, in the eyes of the world, in the bloody face, reduced to a pulp, of a woman who has been stoned.

Woman Who Faced Stoning Death Allegedly 'Confesses' On Iranian State TV

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 05.25.2011

TEHRAN, Iran — A lawyer for an Iranian woman who had faced death by stoning on an adultery conviction said Thursday he suspects she was tortured...

The Right Side of Justice: It's Time to End Stoning

Shohreh Aghdashloo | Posted 05.25.2011

Shohreh Aghdashloo

The time has come for Iranians, Muslims, indeed all people who truly believe in human dignity to insist that this shameful and barbaric act of stoning be ended now and forevermore.

Story of Two Women: Two Death Sentences in Iran

Amnesty International | Posted 05.25.2011

Amnesty International

By Elise Auerbach, the Iran and Jordan country specialist for Amnesty International USA Over the past weeks Amnesty International and other human r...

Saving Sakineh with Signatures

Irshad Manji | Posted 05.25.2011

Irshad Manji

Worldwide concern for Sakineh has mattered over the past few days. Still, let's not be fooled. A public relations victory for Iran's rulers isn't the goal. Sustained respect for human dignity is.

Iranian Woman Will Not Be Stoned, May Still Be Killed

Newsweek | Katie Paul | Posted 05.25.2011

Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the Iranian woman whose impending execution ignited worldwide outrage this week, will not be stoned to death, the Iranian ...

Iranian Mother May Be Stoned To Death

Save Sakineh | Posted 05.25.2011

An Iranian woman faces death by stoning after being convicted of adultery. Amnesty International yesterday called on the Iranian authorities to halt t...

Warning: Graphic Images

Jamie Lee Curtis | Posted 05.25.2011

Jamie Lee Curtis

I hope that gruesome images in the news result in some social change and public outrage but I fear it will be just a spectator sport for so many.

Indonesia's Aceh Passes Law On Stoning To Death

AP | FAKHRURRADZIE GADE | Posted 05.25.2011

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — Lawmakers in a devoutly Muslim Indonesian province voted unanimously that adulterers can be sentenced to death by stonin...