Soraya Manutchehri

Soraya Manutchehri (c.1951 – 15 August 1986) was a 35-year-old woman who was stoned to death in the small village of Kuhpayeh, Iran, after being allegedly convicted of adultery.

Soraya Manutchehri
Died(1986-08-15)15 August 1986
Kuhpayeh, Isfahan, Iran

Unnamed witnesses have claimed that her husband, Ghorban-Ali, a prison guard with a petty criminal past, was eager to get rid of her in order to marry a 14-year-old girl. Not wanting to support two families, nor return Soraya's dowry, he therefore spread false rumours of her adultery.

Her death was the subject of a 1990 book, La Femme Lapidée, by Freidoune Sahebjam. The book was later adapted as the film The Stoning of Soraya M..

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