Iran: barbaric

Iran Human Rights reports that unlike what Iranian autorities say, the punishment of stoning in Iran has been practiced by the Iranian authorities every year during the past four years.
Since May 2006 7 people are killed by stoning:
May 2006 in Mashhad:
Mahboubeh Mohammadi,
Abbas Hajizadeh
July 2007 in Qazvin:
Jafar Kiani
December 2008 in Mashhad:
Houshang Khodadadeh,
an unidentfied man,
Mahmood Gh. an Afghan citizen who managed to pull himself out of the hole and his stoning was halted based on the Iranian penal law.
March 2009 in Rasht:
Vali Azad.



There are also 14 people sentenced to stoning, on the deathrow:
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani (43), in the prison of Tabriz.
Kobra Babaei in the prison of Tabriz. Her husband who was also sentenced to death by stoning, has been hanged in 2009.
Azar Bagheri (19) in the prison of Tabriz.
Iran Eskandari (31) in the prison of Ahvaz.
Fatemeh, in one of the prisons in Tehran, probably Evin.
Maryam Ghorbanzadeh (25) in the prison of Tabriz.
Hashemi-Nasab in the Vakilabad prison of Mashad.
Ashraf Kalhori (41) in the Evinprison of Tehran.
M. Kh. in the Vakilabad prison of Mashad.
Sarimeh Sajjadi (31) in the prison of Oroumieh.
Kheyrieh Valania (42) in the prison of Ahvaz.
Men, who are sentenced to death by stoning:
Seyed Naghi Ahmadi in the prison of Sari.
Boali Janfashani (33) in the prison of Oroumieh.
Mohammad Ali Navid Khamami in the prison of Rasht.

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