IRAN. COUPLE REPORTED HANGED IN MAY, WERE ACTUALLY STONED TO DEATH

according to Rooz daily, “In May 2006, a man and a woman identified as Abbass H. and Mahboubeh M. were stoned to death in the northern city of Mashhad”.
The daily stated, “According to Islamic rituals, they were cleaned and wrapped in white shrouds by the undertaker while still alive. Being a female, Mahboubeh was buried alive up to her shoulders, and Abbass was buried in the ground, up to his waist. Then, they were stoned to a gradual death.” The two were originally reported hanged by officials.
Rooz is an iranian newspaper published on the internet. It is mostly staffed by exiled independent reformist Iranian journalists.