Mohammad Javad Larijani, the secretary of Iran’s Judiciary Human Rights Headquarters, announced on Tuesday March 18 that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani has been pardoned by the judiciary. The Fars News Agency reports that Larijani said: “The Sakineh Mohammadi file became the source of four months of widespread attacks against the regime.” He added: “This individual […]
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Human Rights Watch urged Iran’s judiciary not to run new penal code
Iran: Proposed Penal Code Retains Stoning Law Permits Execution of Child Offenders, Other Abusive Practices June 3, 2013-Iran’s judiciary should not implement provisions of the new penal code that violate basic rights, including execution by stoning. The Guardian Council, composed of 12 religious jurists, reinserted the stoning provision into a previous version of the […]
The “End of Stoning”: Islamic Republic Style
Huffington Post – The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran in his latest report, published on March 7th, welcomed the omission of stoning as a punishment in the newly ratified Islamic Penal Code, but expressed his concern that severe punishments may still be issued at a […]
‘End stoning and cutting of hand forever,’ urges reformer Mostafa Tajzadeh
GVF — Incarcerated political activist Mostafa Tajzadeh has called on Iran’s judiciary to impose a ban on death-by-stoning penalty “once and for all”.
Iran human rights chief says flogging, stoning and amputation is not torture
The Secretary of the Human Rights Department in the Judiciary said that westerners take advantage of retribution [eye for an eye] sentences, amputations and stoning.