AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OUTRAGED AT REPORTED STONING

Amnesty International expressed outrage at the reported execution by stoning of Ja’far Kiani on 5 July, 2007, in the village of Aghche-kand, near Takestan in Iran’s Qazvin province. The organization urged the Head of the Judiciary, Ayatollah Hashemi Shahroudi, to immediately intervene to prevent the execution by stoning of Mokarrameh Ebrahimi, a woman convicted in the same case. Ja’far Kiani and Mokarrameh Ebrahimi were sentenced to death by stoning after conviction of adultery. The couple had been imprisoned for the past 11 years in Choubin prison. Their two children are believed to live in prison with their mother.