Where is stoning legal

In countries where the legal system is based on Islamic Sharia law, stoning is the penalty to be used to punish adultery.

Pressure is often put on organisations in the field which try to change attitudes. To what extent does the EU support non-governmental organisations that are trying to change attitudes in this area? This does not require any special procedure or permission and it is easily done in any marriage center. A law that allows men to have relations outside marriage but under no circumstances gives the same right to women, is intrinsically unequal.

The Islamic law of Iran recognizes the consent of the first wife as a conditionality for the next marriages, however, with the social and financial pressure that exists for most women, they have no other way than consent. Women cannot have more than one partner and the punishment of cheating for them is the highest because of the ideology that if a woman gets a second husband and a baby is born, there will be confusion in who is the father.

This idea can be rejected due to technological advances and DNA recognition. However, Islamic scholars now argue that there are the basic foundations of family and society at risk if women are allowed to have more than one spouse; ironically some of these scholars state that lack of permission to women for polygamy is for their own sake because women are emotional and their approach to marriage and sexual relationship is different because of the fundamental differences of the two genders.

In , Sakineh became the subject of an international campaign, triggered by her two children, that protested for her fate. By July , the Iranian government banned reporters in Iran from reporting on any details of the case. Her lawyer, Mohammad Mostafaei had to flee the country to Turkey and then Norway where he sought asylum in the same year after being accused of financial fraud.

He claimed that the officials were harassing him for his vigorous defense of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, and his activities regarding the defense of juvenile offenders in death row. This claim appears true since, in recent years, a number of lawyers defending sensitive cases have been under a lot of pressure from Iranian judicial authorities Esfandiari, It is worthy of mentioning that this act of the Iranian government continues even now and ten years after that case, with sentencing and imprisoning human rights lawyers such as Nasrin Sotoudeh, AmirSalar Davoudi, and many others, only for seeking justice as a part of their jobs IranPrimer, In July the Iranian Embassy in London stated that according to information from the relevant authorities, she will not be executed by stoning punishment NBCNews, She was later brought to national Television which showed her confessing in her own Azeri language, to adultery and involvement with the murder of her husband, prior to which according to her lawyer, she had been tortured for days.

In late August, she was given a hour notice that she was going to be hung at dawn the next day, a sentence that was not performed. Meanwhile, she was denied the right to be visited by her lawyer and her family Kamali-Dehghan, Sakineh did not speak Persian, her mother tongue, Azeri, was not used in the court and this could also have effects of her understanding of the court proceedings and the decision making.

According to informal interviews with her lawyers and activists, she returned to the jail and said with excitement to her inmate that she did not get any time, and instead she got the Rajm.

Her inmate started crying, Sakineh was surprised and said why are you upset? I got the Rajm, and her inmate explained to her for the first time that Rajm means stoning to death Mojtahedi, Iran has an ethnic and linguistic diversity with people with backgrounds of Azeri-Turk, Arabs, Lurs, Kurds, and others next to Persian. Eventually, after nine years on imprisonment, Sakineh is believed to be released for good behavior. Her death sentence was reduced to ten years of jail after the campaigns and international requests to release her.

The Iranian government had to save face at the time of her release since her case was being internationally regarded and activists and international human rights bodies had requested her immediate release. Violations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Despite the intensification and systematization of human rights violations in Iran after the Islamic Revolution, Iran is still admitted into the UN.

Iran has willingly committed itself to the provisions and the principles contained in the ratified treaties and the international human rights law. Unfortunately, no effective measure has been seen so far by the UN agencies to minimize the legal gender-based and human rights violations Moinipour, Article 2 of this universal declaration recognizes sexism as a violation of human rights. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.

In addition to promoting cruelty and violence in the law, the book of Hodoud in the Penal Code is against Human Rights. Conclusion Gender-based violence occurs due to structural support of inequality between men and women.

Stoning of women can be demonstrated as a type of gender violence that is being legitimated by human-made law and the state, making it an institutionalized form of legal violence against women. The stoning of women is caused by a controversial interpretation of Islam a traditional patriarchal system of self-anointed ruling male elites.

In other words, it is state femicide and not a form of Islamic procedural justice. The arbitrary interpretation of hadith is contingent upon culture, not Islamic law, in Iran traditions play a key role in the process of lawmaking Kusha, The media blockage and lack of existence of police records or non-censored court proceedings in Iran, has made this research hard in terms of resources; as a consequence, most data has been gathered by reference to secondary sources including news and free media outside of Iran.

There are so many instances of legally sanctioned violence against women that are not adequately reported. The cases of Sakineh and Sorayya were only two examples of cruelty and gender injustice in Iran. Sorayya was stoned to death like many other women whose stories were not told.

We know about her only because someone decided to write her story and later someone decided to make a movie about it. A great improvement was shown in the case of Sakineh because of the international campaigns and the pressure from international bodies on the Iranian government to abolish or reduce her sentence.

Amnesty International reported that she had been raped by three men but was accused of adultery when she tried to report the rape to al Shabaab militants in control of the city. None of the men was arrested. Homosexual relationships are also punishable by stoning. Two young women, Laila Ibrahim Issa Jamool and Intisar Sharif Abdallah , were sentenced to stoning for alleged adultery in separate cases last year.

Both convictions were based on confessions and both women lacked legal representation, according to reports. Human Rights Watch said Abdallah appeared to be under 18 and only confessed after she was beaten by a family member.

Both women had given birth not long before and were held in jail with their babies and with their legs shackled. They have since been freed on appeal. HRW says judges have sentenced several women to stoning in recent years, but courts have overturned the sentences on appeal. Most stoning sentences have been imposed on women. Courts rarely issue stoning sentences but it has happened occasionally.

In , the courts upheld a stoning sentence of a man convicted of having sex with his four stepdaughters. The girls were sentenced to 80 lashes each even though they had been forced into the relationships. In , a Bangladeshi man was sentenced to stoning for adultery. An Indonesian woman was similarly sentenced in even though she told the court she had been raped.

Both sentences were later reduced to one year and deportation. YEMEN: Stoning is the prescribed punishment for adultery and for homosexuality by married men under the penal code enacted in Although no known stonings have taken place, it is still a legitimate punishment.

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