NCRI - Last month, the clerical regime's judiciary of Orumieh, in Azerbaijan province, sentenced a woman to death by stoning.

The woman, Malak Ghorbani, from the western town of Naghadeh, is charged with adultery. She is currently jailed in Orumieh.

Another woman called Ashraf Kalhori, in Tehran's Evin prison, is also awaiting her execution by stoning.

According to Kalhori's attorney, "In the past year, there have been five stoning sentences handed down against women" by the mullahs' regime.

The NCRI's Women's Committee Chair Ms. Sarvnaz Chitsaz said, "Stoning to death is an inhuman and un-Islamic punishment which is the product of the misogynistic and fundamentalist regime in Iran. As a result of revelations by the Iranian Resistance and pressure applied on the regime by the international community over the years, the mullahs' regime had refrained from such edicts. With Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's rise to power and the realization of the ineffectiveness of the appeasement policy, however, the misogynistic mullahs have gone back to the same inhuman methods."