Video: End stoning in Iran

15 August 2008

The spokesperson for Iran’s Judiciary announced on Tuesday 5 August that execution by stoning has been suspended and that several unnamed women who were facing the punishment have had their sentences commuted. Drewery Dyke of Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa Programme, discusses the announcement: 

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Shadi Sadr of the Stop Stoning Forever Campaign discusses their work:

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