The lorry deposited a large number of stones and pebbles beside the waste ground and then two women were led to the spot wearing white and with sacks over their heads... (They) were enveloped in a shower of stones and transformed into two red sacks... The wounded women fell to the ground and Revolutionary Guards smashed their heads in with a shovel to make sure they were dead.
Eleven people, nine of them women, are currently under sentence of death in Iran for the 'crime' of adultery. Stonings can take up to 20 minutes before the victims are killed and if members of the public rounded up for the purpose refuse to participate in throwing stones, public sector employees are taken from their workplaces and ordered to take part.
From a recently published Amnesty International (www.amnesty.org) report on the continuing practice of stoning women to death in Iran.(read in An Phoblacht - www.anphoblacht.com)
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