Contact Admin. According to reports, Hajieh Esmailvand was sentenced to five years imprisonment, to be followed by execution by stoning, for adultery with an unnamed man who at the time was a 17 year old minor.
Although the exact date of her arrest and trial are not known, it is reported that she has been imprisoned in the town of Jolfa, in the north west of Iran, since January The Iranian Penal Code is very specific about the manner of execution and types of stones which should be used. Article states that men will be buried up to their waists and Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights up to their breasts for the purpose of execution by stoning. All death sentences in Iran must be upheld by the Supreme Court before they can be carried out.
Hejieh could be killed in the next five days if we do not act quickly. Our members here in the UK are writing to the Iranian authorities, imploring them to stop this brutal execution. Campaigners in Iran are also taking action. But we need more people to stand up and be counted, to tell the Iranian authorities that this is not acceptable. From the battlefield to the bedroom, Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights are at risk.
Violence against Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights is a human rights atrocity and one we must tackle immediately. The news follows reports of a year old girl, 'Leyla M', who has a mental age of eight, reportedly facing imminent execution for 'morality-related' offences in Iran after being forced into prostitution by her mother as a child.
According to a Tehran newspaper report of 28 November, she was sentenced to death by a court in the central Iranian city of Arak and the sentence has now been passed to the Supreme Court for confirmation. Leyla M was reportedly sentenced to death on charges of 'acts contrary to chastity' by controlling a brothel, having intercourse with blood relatives and giving birth to an illegitimate child. She is to be flogged before she is executed.
