Washington, June 24, 2008 (IranVNC)—The recent stoning sentence on adultery charges for two sisters in Iran is sparking a debate over the legality of that court order. 16.30 GMT-12:30 PM/EST In February this year, sisters Zohreh and Azar Kabiri, from the town of Shahriar in Tehran Province, were charged with adultery. They will be sentenced to death by stoning. The verdict comes six months after each sister had already carried out a sentence of 99 lashes for the same crime. In its 2008 report, Amnesty International and other human rights groups have demanded an end to execution in Iran, particularly stoning. (GFX: Stoning is practiced today in: Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, among others.) Zahir Janmohamed, Advocacy Director,Amnesty International USA: "The Iranian law stipulates that the rock must be big enough to inflict injury, but not that big enough where the actual stone causes fatality... The very act of throwing rocks at an individual is a form of mild torture."(GFX: Stoning ismentioned in Greek history as well as Christian, Jewish and Islamic texts.) Eleven people in Iran, currently on adultery charges, await their death sentence by stoning...nine of whom are women. Janmohamed: "In a lot of these societies that are highly patriarchal society, you have incidents in which the husbands, because they suspect their wives of doing something deemed inappropriate, they'll report their wives committed adultery. In a ...
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