Iran orders woman's execution for adultery after husband catches her on CCTV
An Iranian court has sentenced a woman to death for adultery, state media said.
A report by the IRAN newspaper said the woman worked as a trainer in a gym for females. It said her husband contacted police last year when he found her with another man at their home. The husband discovered from surveillance cameras that she was having relations with other men, the report added. Under Iranian law, she can appeal against the sentence.
Iranian courts sometimes sentence people to death by stoning for adultery, which can be reduced to lighter punishments on appeal. Iran is under international pressure for its extensive use of the death penalty. On Wednesday, UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres said Iran was executing people at "an alarming rate". He said at least 419 people received capital punishment in the first seven months of this year, an increase of 30 per cent from the same period last year.
Mr Guterres called on Iran to immediately halt all executions, abolish the death penalty and release all people detained arbitrarily, “including women and girls, human rights defenders, lawyers and journalists, for legitimately exercising their rights to freedom of opinion and expression, association and peaceful assembly.”
He also urged the government to guarantee the right to peaceful assembly, to ensure that security at protests complies with international human rights norms and standards, and to respect the rights to due process and fair trials.
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In 2017, a court sentenced a woman to death for adultery but there has been no report of her execution since then. Crimes punishable by the death penalty in Iran include adultery, sodomy, murder, rape, armed robbery, kidnapping and drug trafficking. In 2022, Iran executed two gay men who were convicted of sodomy.
Earlier this year, Human Rights Watch raised concerns about Iran's rapid escalation of executions. Tara Sepehri Far, senior Iran researcher at Human Rights Watch, said: "Iranian authorities are apparently using executions, an inhumane punishment, following unfair trials as a show of force against its own people, who are demanding fundamental change. The international community should unequivocally condemn this terrifying trend and press Iranian officials to halt these executions.”
In a similar case last year, a Sudanese woman was sentenced to stoning for cheating on her husband. Maryam Alsyed Tiyrab, 20, was arrested in Sudan's White Nile state in June 2022 before she was found guilty of adultery by a court at the end of the month.
Maryam - who had returned to her family home after separating from her husband - claims to have been interrogated by police and forced to give an illegal confession. The sharia judge ordered she be stoned to death, a decision she has appealed at Sudan's High Court.
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