NCRI – Two prisoners were stoned by the mullahs' judiciary in Behesht-Reza cemetery in the holy city of Mashhad.
One of the victims managed to get out of the hole while the other died of stones. The two men were sentenced to death by stoning at the same time. However, one of them identified as Mahmoud escaped with minor injures.
According to mullahs' penal codes he will not be stoned to death for the second time.
A local judge sentenced the prisoners to death by stoning in Khorasan's province Fifth Circuit Court.
On August 4, 2007, Alireza Jamshidi, mullahs' judiciary spokesman, announced that stoning as a sentence was abolished altogether from the Iranian criminal laws.
Despite much smoke screening by the mullahs' judiciary regarding the commuting of all such rulings, there has not been any change made in the stoning cases.
In July 2007, the Iranian regime caused international outrage when Jafar Kiani was stoned to death in the northwestern city of Qazvin.
A man and a woman — Abbas H. and Mahbubeh A. — were also stoned to death in May 2006 in the northeastern city of Mashhad, although their execution has never been officially confirmed.
On February 4, the mullahs' Supreme Court upheld the death sentence by stoning of two sisters Zohreh (27) and Azar (28) Kabiri-Neyat in the notorious Gohardasht (Rajaishahr) prison in Karaj some 40 km west of the capital Tehran.
Similarly, in the winter of 2007, the death sentence by stoning of a 49-year-old man named Abdullah Farivar was upheld by the Supreme Court in the northern city of Sari. The man has two children.
