NCRI – Mohammad-Javad Larijani, the mullahs’ Judiciary Chief Advisor and an ideologue within the clerical regime said, "Stoning is neither torture nor is it an improper punishment," the state-run news agency ISNA reported today.
Admitting that there is no mention of stoning in "holy Quran" or in the teachings of the "prophet Mohammad’s," Larijani said, "As long as it is [written] in our laws it would be proper to hand down such a penalty by the judges…It is obvious that stoning is a lesser sentence in comparison to hanging since the [victim] stands a chance of staying alive after stoning."
Larijani a staunched supporter of inhuman punishments has previously said that the Chief of Judiciary, Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi encouraged the sentence with slight reservation in "how it is implemented."
At least eight women in the regime’s prisons are waiting stoning.
The Iranian Resistance draws the attention of the United Nations Secretary General, High Commissioner for Human Rights, UN Human Rights Council, and all international human rights organizations to the rising and systematic human rights violations in Iran. It also calls for the referral of the mullahs’ appalling human rights record to the UN Security Council for the adoption of binding decisions.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
September 30, 2007
