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The Stoning of Soraya M.: a Story of Injustice in Iran

By Richard , Sahebjam , Freidoune;Seaver

Book information

Publisher
Incorporated, Skyhorse Publishing Company
Year
2011
ISBN
9781611450255, 9781628721058, 1628721057
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
857 kB (877092 bytes)
Pages
93 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

Soraya M.'s husband, Ghorban-Ali, couldn't afford to marry another woman. Rather than returning Soraya's dowry, as custom required before taking a second wife, he plotted with four friends and a counterfeit mullah to dispose of her. Together, they accused Soraya of adultery. Her only crime was cooking for a friend's widowed husband. Exhausted by a lifetime of abuse and hardship, Soraya said nothing, and the makeshift tribunal took her silence as a confession of guilt. They sentenced her to death by stoning: a punishment prohibited by Islam but widely practiced. Day by day-sometimes minute by m.

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