KUWAIT TIMES: TEHRAN: Iran said yesterday that a man convicted of adultery had been stoned to death, the first time it has confirmed such an execution in five years, drawing international condemnation. The punishment - which involves the public hurling stones at the convict buried up to his waist - was meted out despite a 2002 directive from the head of the country's judiciary suspending the practice. "This case has been recently executed in the village that was mentioned," judiciary spokesman Alireza Jamshidi told reporters about the stoning of Jafar Kiani in Aghche Kand near Takestan, in Qazvin province. Iran ‘adulterer’ stones to death (more)
Mark Alexander
