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Iran Denies Stonings Carried Out Recently
November 21, 2006
Judiciary spokesman Jamal Karimirad (file photo) (Fars)
Karimirad was reacting to a letter by women's rights activists who have called on the head of Iran's judiciary to end the Islamic practice of stoning convicted adulterers to death.
Activists have said that a man and a woman were stoned to death in May
despite a moratorium on the practice, and several others face stoning sentences.
Karimirad said some courts might have issued stoning sentences but that the sentences have subsequently been commuted.
(ISNA, ILNA)