Iran sentences a woman to death for adultery, state media say

TEHRAN, Iran — An Iranian court docket has sentenced a woman to death for adultery, state media mentioned.

A document by way of the IRAN newspaper on Wednesday mentioned the woman labored as a teacher in a health club for women folk.

It mentioned her husband contacted police in 2022 when he discovered her with any other guy at their house. The husband came upon from surveillance cameras that she used to be having family members with different males, it mentioned.

Under Iranian legislation, she will be able to enchantment.

Iranian courts once in a while sentence folks to death by way of stoning for adultery, which may also be lowered to lighter punishments upon enchantment.

Iran is underneath global power for its intensive use of the death penalty. On Wednesday, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres mentioned Iran used to be executing folks at “an alarming rate.” He mentioned no less than 419 folks won capital punishment within the first seven months of this yr, an building up of 30% from the similar duration final yr.

In 2017 a court docket sentenced a woman to death for adultery, however there was no document of her execution.

Crimes punishable by way of the death penalty come with adultery, sodomy, homicide, rape, armed theft, kidnapping and drug trafficking.

In 2022, Iran accomplished two homosexual males who had been convicted of sodomy.