...تا آزادی

A man stoned to death in northern Iran



Wednesday, 11 March 2009
NCRI – A 30-year-old man identified as Vali Azad was stoned to death in the Lakan prison yard in the northern city of Rasht, according to reliable sources.
A local judge named Kashani presiding in the 11th branch of the mullahs' court in Northern Province of Gilan order the stoning.
The ruling was implemented secretly in a remote area of the prison with presence of a few prison officials.
The authorities refuse to turn over the corpus to the family of the victim. Meanwhile, on January 13, the mullahs’ judiciary spokesman confirmed reports first exposed by the Iranian Resistance about the secret and brutal stoning on December 26, 2008 of three people in the Behesht-Reza cemetery in the holy city of Mashhad.
Prior to this, in a deceptive move, Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, head of the mullahs’ judiciary, had announced a ban on implementing stoning sentences. The regime’s judiciary spokesman explained about this clear inconsistency as well as the rationale for implementing the cruel punishment by stoning, and said, “In view of the judges’ independence, it is possible that as long as the ban on stoning has not become law, the recommendations of the head of the judiciary would not be acted upon.”