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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran: Woman Sentenced To Death By Stoning
2006-06-30
A court in the northwestern Iranian city of Urmia has sentenced a Kurdish woman, Malak Ghorbany, found guilty of committing adultery to death by stoning - a sentence rarely carried out in recent years. The court also sentenced the woman's brother Abu Bakr Ghorbai and husband Mohammad Daneshfar to six years in jail for killing her lover. Stoning death sentences decreased after international pressure on former reformist president Mohammad Khatami contributed to the end of such rulings in the late 1990s. The punishment was however never scrapped from the penal code of the Islamic Republic. The Committee for the defence of human rights of Iranian Kurdistan has issued a statement to save the life of Malak Ghorbani.
Posted by:Fred

#5  Imagine.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2006-06-30 20:59  

#4  Another excellent reason to hate religion.

Some day I hope that the same sentence will be carried out against every mullah, every pasdaran, every judge, everyone no matter how slight their connection to this evil regime.

What a happy day that will be!
Posted by: Azad   2006-06-30 16:30  

#3  Anyone remember the scene from 2001 Space Odissey in which the one chimp tribe stones the other to death ?
You think Ahmadi-na-Chimp saw it too ???
Posted by: Elder of Zion   2006-06-30 10:49  

#2  "a sentence rarely carried out in recent years."

Actually a sentence often carried out unofficially by female members of the family. The only unusual aspect of this case is that it made it into the court system.

Al
Posted by: Frozen Al   2006-06-30 10:26  

#1  Great picture. Looks enough like Ahmadinejad to be his mother.

Nice to see Iran continuing its slide into the 7th century (Hey you Canadian jihadi wives...look what you have to look forward to!!!). Let's see what Sharia (rhymes with diarrhea) Law leads to:

- One lover murdered without a trial? (check)
- Female lover sentenced to death by a "court"? (check)
- Murderer and accomplice receive hand-slap 6 year sentence? (check)



Posted by: anymouse   2006-06-30 00:59  

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