Feminist Peace Network

This is an informative article, but we need to get away from this notion that stoning is “primarily a women’s issue”.  Stoning is primarily done to women, but it is done by men and is therefore a man’s issue, an issue of patriarchal privilege and power.

“Currently, in Iran, there are nine women sentenced to death by stoning on charges of adultery, compared to two men for the same offence - highlighting the fact that this barbaric mode of execution is primarily a women’s issue.

Whether these 11 unfortunate people can be saved from the brutality and humiliation involved depends on the success of a campaign, launched two months ago, by a group of lawyers and women’s rights activists to have the stoning law abolished altogether from the Islamic Penal Code of this country.

Stoning is more a women’s issue because, according to Islamic laws, a man can have four permanent wives and any number of temporary wives.”

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