Stoning of Soraya M. A Story of Injustice in Iran

Name: Stoning of Soraya M. A Story of Injustice in Iran
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ISBN: 9781611450255

ISBN-10: 161145025X

ISBN-13: 9781611450255

Edition: 2011

Authors: Freidoune Sahebjam, Richard Seaver

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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 minute Sahebjam deftly recounts these horrendous events, tracing Soraya s life with searing…

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List price: $12.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/27/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Freidoune Sahebjam, the son of a former Iranian ambassador, is a journalist who was sentenced to death in absentia for his undercover reporting criticizing the Iranian government. He lives in hiding in France.