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Open Stadiums to Women Audience

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Campaign to Defend Women's Rights Defenders

Right to Pass Nationality: Iranian Mother, Iranian Child

Iran: Death by stoning suspended…but still legal!

The SKSW Campaign could not celebrate quite yet. Punishment by stoning remains lawful under the new draft criminal code of Iran ... More

Stop Stoning Forever Campaign: A Report

In response to the stonings of these two individuals and women’s rights activists formed the Stop Stoning Forever Campaign in cooperation with the Network of Volunteer Lawyers in order to abolish the law of stoning in Iran ... More

Rochelle Terman

Statement on the 2008 Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture

The WLUML network, the Stop Killing and Stoning Women! Campaign, and our sister-organizations seek an end to the persistent misuse of religion and culture to justify the physical torture of women (including killing and maiming) as punishment for transgressing culturally-imposed ‘norms’ of sexual behaviour ... More

he Global Campaign Stop Killing and Stoning Women

An open letter to Switzerland's Foreign Ministry

You don’t seem to respect Iranian women while respecting the anti-human rights law of a government that takes away Iranian women’s right to choose their own clothing. ... More

Mokarrameh Ebrahimi released from prison

You can continue to show your support for other women and men sentenced for adultery to death by stoning by demanding their release. ... More

Call for Action: Stop the Stoning to Death of Zohreh and Azar Kabari!

The Women Living Under Muslim Laws international solidarity network, and the Global Campaign Stop Killing and Stoning Women! urges all concerned citizens to immediately contact the Iranian officials by phone and/or fax to request them to stop the scheduled stoning to death of Zohreh and Azar Kabiri in Iran. ... More

Campaign to tackle women killings

The 'Stop killing and stoning women' campaign is initiated to address the intensifying trend of cultural and religious legitimization of lethal violence against women ... More

Turkish Daily News

Full Text of “Family Protection Draft Bill”

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Translated by Amnesty International

“We Are Not Ashamed of ‎Stoning!”‎

Iranian Human Rights Commission Chief:: "Stoning is neither torture nor an incongruous punishment...If we had execution as a punishment for adultery instead of stoning, they would again complain that the crime and the punishment are not in proportion with each other." ... More

ISNA

Stoning Sentence for Female “Evil Doer”‎

A woman who committed adultery, having a husband and three children was sentenced to death in an Iranian court in Mashhad ... More

Ghods Newspaper

Iran ... back to the Stone Age

The execution has apparently gone ahead despite Iran's moratorium on execution by stoning, a moratorium that had been in effect since 2002," said Jose Diaz in a statement issued by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva. ... More

Fariba Sahraei and Teenaz Javat

Stoning Judge Under Investigation

Judiciary spokesman asked members of Iranian parliament to help amend the country’s penal code.
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ISNA

A Brief History of Grassroots Struggles to End Stoning

In Iran, the legislative entities do not have the freedom to easily change or remove laws that are in harmony with religious principles. The Gaurdian Council in Iran acts to prevent the passage of laws that it finds incompatible with Islamic law.

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Mehrangiz Kar