WLUML supports, and urges you to support, this campaign with
the objective of changing the Islamic Penal Code of Iran so that stoning will
never again be issued as a sentence or practiced as a punishment.
The
Stop Stoning Forever campaign has begun through the coordinated efforts of some
women’s non-governmental organizations, a group of women activists and the
Network of Volunteer Lawyers.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
The current
campaign activity is to collect signatures for a petition to the Head of
Judiciary, Ayatollah Shahroudi.
Petition to Eradicate the Law of Stoning
Read the petition and sign on at: http://www.meydaan.com/English/petition.aspx?cid=46&pid=9
BACKGROUND
Stoning
is a punishment for adultery decreed by the Islamic Penal Code of Iran. Most of
the victims are women. In December 2002, Ayatollah Shahroudi, the Head of
Judiciary ordered a ban on the practice of stoning. However, rumors about
executions by stoning continued to be heard around the country. In May 2006, a
man and woman were executed in Mashhad. In June 2006 in Evin prison, Tehran, a
woman named Ashraf Kolheri was handed an official notice that gave her 15 days
notice of her execution by stoning. Consequently, a large group of women
activists wrote a petition to Ayatollah Shahroudi asking him to commute her
sentence; the parliament representatives were copied on the letter.
Meanwhile, the Network of Volunteer Lawyers initiated a search for
people sentenced to be stoned within the prisons of the country. After two
months of research, 9 women and 2 men were identified - some of those cases were
critical. Some members of the Network of Volunteer Lawyers decided to represent
these 11 prisoners to save their lives.
Read more at: http://www.meydaan.com/Stoning/
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