Stoning is a “medieval punishment which has no role in the modern world,” British Foreign Secretary William Hague told reporters Thursday. “If the punishment is carried out, it will disgust and appall the watching world,” Hague said in a media conference with Turkey’s foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu in London.
Still Stoning Women To Death, And Iranians Wonder Why Others View Them as Barbaric
The photo above is from The Stoning of Soraya M.” a drama based on best-seller of the same title written by a French-Iranian journalist on the death of an Iranian woman in a village in 1986.In the film, local authorities use the Islamic Sharia law to encourage inhabitants of the village to turn against her friend and neighbor.







