Iran Threatens Stoning of Two Women Accused of Adultery

The barbarism continues in Iran. The misogynists that dominate Iran once again threaten to stone women to death for commiting the crime of adultery. The kangeroo courts convicted them and even tried them twice on the same charges to come away with this horrible result.

Two Iranian sisters convicted of adultery face being stoned to death after the supreme court upheld the death sentences against them, the Etemad newspaper Monday quoted their lawyer as saying.

The two were found guilty of adultery -- a capital crime in Islamic Iran -- after the husband of one sister presented video evidence showing them in the company of other men while he was away.

"Branch 23 of the supreme court has confirmed the stoning sentence," said their lawyer, Jabbar Solati.

The penal court of Tehran province had already sentenced the sisters identified only as Zohreh, 27, and Azar (no age given) to stoning, the daily said.

Solati explained that the two sisters had initially been tried for "illegal relations" and received 99 lashes. However in a second trial they were convicted of "adultery."

The pair admitted they were in the video presented by the husband but argued that there was no adultery as none of the footage showed them engaged in a sexual act with other men.

"There is no legal evidence whereby the judge could have the knowledge for issuing a stoning sentence," Solati said, adding that he had appealed to the state prosecutor.

"The two sisters have been tried twice for one crime," Solati protested.

This case goes to the heart of the misognistic view of Islam. Women are seen as the possession of men, particularly the husband. To be seen in public with someone who is not a blood relations is grounds for execution by stoning or lashes.

Barbaric doesn't begin to cover the treatment of women in Iran.