Iranian authorities have arrested two foreigners as they were interviewing the son of a woman who could face death by stoning on an adultery conviction, the state news agency reported Monday.

"We will flog the women ... we will stone them to death in public [for crimes]," said Haibatullah Akhundzada, the Taliban's supreme leader, in an audio message issued on March 24. . Akhundzada – who ...

Iran said Monday that it had arrested two foreigners as they were interviewing the son of a woman whose death sentence by stoning on an adultery conviction ignited international outrage. Judiciary ...

Pilgrims moved through the sprawling Jamarat complex in Saudi Arabia’s capital and threw pebbles at a pillar in a ritual seen ...

LONDON – LONDON (AP) — An Iranian woman whose sentence of death by stoning was lifted earlier this month says she's grateful for the international support she's received, but remains heartbroken at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pakistan wedding A British woman faces a sentence to death by stoning after she was allegedly forced to marry her Pakistani uncle ...

More than 1.5 million Muslim pilgrims gathered in Mina, Saudi Arabia, on 27 May to perform the symbolic stoning ritual that marks a key stage of the annual Hajj pilgrimage. View on euronews ...

News of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani’s sentence of death by stoning sparked an international campaign by human rights organizations, celebrities and politicians to bring a halt to it. It even elicited a ...

Running time: 1 hr., 56 min. ‘The Stoning of Soroya M.” is a disturbing film about a rural Iranian woman stoned to death for adultery during the reign of Ayatollah Khomeini. It’s an old-fashioned ...

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