WUNRN
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment:
SR Torture Report to the UN General
Assembly 2012
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to Report in the UN official language translation of choice:
IV, Actual Practices of Capital
Punishment that Violate the Prohibition of Torture & Cruel, Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment
A. Methods
of Execution
Methods of execution that per se violate the prohibition of torture and
cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment
31. The jurisprudence of regional human rights bodies and national
judiciaries
leaves no doubt that death by stoning constitutes
torture and is, beyond dispute, a violation of the prohibition of cruel,
inhuman and degrading treatment. In Jabari v. Turkey (2000), the
European Court of Human Rights held that death by stoning was a
violation of the prohibition on torture and that the possibility of being
stoned
to death would make deportation of the complainant to the
Islamic Republic of Iran contrary to Article 3 of the European
Convention.
At the United Nations, the Commission on Human
Rights
described execution by stoning as a partiularly cruel or
inhuman means of execution........
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WUNRN
STONING POWER POINT: http://www.wunrn.com/powerpoint/2012/Stoning.pps
This WUNRN Power Point contains 4
film segments for STONING. The online technology of the Power Point does
not show the videos, so the links to the videos are given below. For each
video, there are two links. The first is the longer version of each, and the
second is the shorter version included in the WUNRN DVD and on-site versions of
the Stoning Power Point.
Stop Stoning Globally -
Power Point
STONING POWER POINT VIDEO SEGMENTS
*Afghanistan - Stoning of Woman
Accused of Adultery
*Iran - Stoning - Amnesty
International
*Stoning of Woman in Pakistan
*Stoning of Soraya M.