death sentence: At least nine stoning in Iran! 
Left:
symbol image - In a
protest Oslo (May 2007)
demonstrated exiled Iranians, the
stoning of a woman. including eight women convicted of prostitution, adultery and incest - a teacher because of sexual contact among Wed t student punishment.
Tehran - At least eight women and one man has been sentenced to death by stoning. The verdict could be executed at any time, informed the lawyers of the detainees with the media on Sunday.
The eight women are between 27 and 43 years old. Them prostitution, incest and adultery as crimes were attributed to him. The only man among the convicts, a 50-year-old music teacher is accused of illegal sex with a student.
The last officially reported stoning in the Islamic Republic has been committed a year ago to a man. The execution of the ruling brought a sharp criticism of Tehran by human rights groups, the EU and the UN.
The Iranian Judiciary Chief Ayatollah
Mohmoud Hashemi-Shahroudi ordered a stay of all the 2002 stoning. The Practice addressed in its appeal to Shahroudi that will stop the verdicts against the nine persons, the lawyer Mariam Kian-Arsi at a press conference on Sunday. Complaints against rights violations in Iran are only hardly promising, because the sentences are usually interpreted in accordance with the Sharia. The lawyers still ask the Parliament to remove the stoning and other corporal punishments from the law books.
"We want to be that these penalties are deleted and replaced with ones that are compatible with the dignity of man," said Mohammad Mostafaie. Human rights groups and the international community would support their initiative, is expressed, another lawyer, Shadi Sadr, is convinced. Amnesty International has been campaigning for years to abolish the "grotesque punishment" and indicates that most of the condemned have not received a fair trial.
Iran responds to criticism of its legal system, usually with references to - as he calls Tehran - "abuses" in the West, such as the detention in the U.S. prison at Guantanamo. Source: Standard
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