A staged stoning during a protest

IRAN. EIGHT WOMEN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY STONING

July 11, 2007: Iran sentenced to death eight women currently serving time in Iranian prisons, the state-run daily Etemad-Meli reported. “Eight women have received death sentences by stoning. At least two of them are in Evin Prison in Tehran, two in Sipedar Prison in the south-western city of Ahwaz, one in the northern city of Tabriz, one in Varamin in suburban Tehran, one in Chobin Prison in the western city of Qazvin, and one in Orumieh Prison in northwestern Iran.
The NCRI’s Women’s Committee Chair Ms. Sarvnaz Chitsaz said that Mullah regime is planning to continue similar cruel and degrading punishments to create public fear. She called on the United Nations and all human rights organizations, as well as women’s rights activists, to condemn the crimes of the Mullahs’ medieval regime and adopt measures to put an end to inhuman behaviour. (Sources: NCRI, 13/07/2007)