Iranian man to be stoned to death despite moratorium
— Daily Telegraph reports:
— “An Iranian man convicted of adultery is to be stoned to death despite a moratorium being agreed by the judiciary last year.”
— “Naghi Ahmadi was sentenced to death by stoning in June last year in the northern city of Sari, after he visited a married woman’s home in the night while her husband was away working in another city, the Sarmayeh newspaper reported”
— “A year ago the judiciary said it would scrap the punishment in Iran’s new Islamic penal code”