Iranian justice

I read in Breitbart that "Iranian sisters face stoning for adultery". The report tells us that "Two Iranian sisters convicted of adultery face being stoned to death after the supreme court upheld the death sentences against them, the Etemad newspaper Monday quoted their lawyer as saying. The two were found guilty of adultery -- a capital crime in Islamic Iran -- after the husband of one sister presented video evidence showing them in the company of other men while he was away. "Branch 23 of the supreme court has confirmed the stoning sentence," said their lawyer, Jabbar Solati. The penal court of Tehran province had already sentenced the sisters identified only as Zohreh, 27, and Azar (no age given) to stoning, the daily said. Solati explained that the two sisters had initially been tried for "illegal relations" and received 99 lashes. However in a second trial they were convicted of "adultery." "

99 lashes and now to be stoned to death, that's Iranian justice. In case you wonder how this sentence will be carried out, you can read at Europe News about "Article 104 of the Iranian Penal code. This deals with the size of stones to be used in the punishment of the Adulterer. Specifying that the stones used should "Not be large enough to kill the person by one or two strikes, nor should they be so small that they could not be defined as stones." Evidently over enthusiastic Muslims were using stones too large for purpose and the whole event was over too quickly. Women in this scenario are buried up to their chests before the stoning begins. Hardly worth coming out for if its over with the first, second, or third stone." This process is designed to inflict grievous pain on the victim, in a process leading to his or her slow death.


Here is a picture of Hajiyeh Esmaelvand being readied for her being stoned to death in Iran in 2004


There are plenty of places on the web where you can see actual video of people being stoned to death in Iran or other Arab Muslim countries and I thought long and hard about whether to include such videos on this blog. In the end I have decided not to include them here but to tell you where they are to be found. The videos are harrowing to watch but I think people need to know what is happening in the world.


Iranian stonings from 1994

Iraqi stoning of a Kurdish girl you can read the UK report of this incident here.