Information on whether an unmarried man would be sentenced to death by stoning for committing adultery with a married woman, and on whether such a sentence would be carried out in Tehran at the present time [IRN14940]

According to Amnesty International, an unmarried Iranian man could be sentenced to death by stoning for committing adultery with a married woman since
the Law of Hoduod and Qesas prescribes the death penalty for a wide variety of offences, ...[including] adultery by a married man (Article 100 (a), stoning to death); adultery by a married woman with an adult male (Article 100 (b), stoning to death);... (Amnesty International 1987, 63).
Information on whether a single man would be stoned to death for committing adultery in Tehran at the present time is currently unavailable to the DIRB, but the following information may be useful. Although it does not specify any city where stoning might be carried out, The Guardian does refer to Iran and Saudi Arabia, where
adultery among married couples is a capital offence. In these two countries, the adulterous woman is taken out to a public place and buried up to her chest in the ground, the man up to his waist. The public are then invited to throw stones at their heads until they are dead (7 Aug. 1993).
The attached UPI report, while not referring to stoning for adultery, does describe the stoning to death of three men in Iran.
Additional information on the above subjects is currently unavailable to the DIRB.
References

Amnesty International. 1987. Iran: Violations of Human Rights. (AI Index MDE 13/09/87). London: Amnesty International Publications.

The Guardian [London]. 7 August 1993. Kathy Evans. "British Papers Annoy Islamic Judges in Adultery Case." (NEXIS)

Attachments

Amnesty International. 1987. Iran: Violations of Human Rights. (AI Index MDE 13/09/87). London: Amnesty International Publications, p. 63.

The Guardian [London]. 7 August 1993. Kathy Evans. "British Papers Annoy Islamic Judges in Adultery Case." (NEXIS)

The United Press International (UPI). 11 July 1990. BC Cycle. Christine M. Johnson. "Amnesty: Thousands Killed, Tortured, Illegally Jailed in 1989." (NEXIS)