Imminent Stoning!

Eleven people, nine women and two men as listed below have been condemned to be stoned to death. According to Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, signed and ratified by Iran in 1975, in countries which have not abolished the death penalty, sentence of death may be imposed only for the most serious crimes. Article 7 of the same covenant states that No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment. Despite ratifying the above covenant, the Islamic penal code gives the judges the right to sentence the accused to death by stoning even when the crime of adultery has not been proved according to the same penal code's standards and requirements.

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h/t: Sheema Kalbasi