Iran: Whether, in recent years, a single male residing in Tehran and accused of committing adultery with a married woman has been punished for his action by means of stoning, flogging or imprisonment
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 March 1999 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | IRN31378.E |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Iran: Whether, in recent years, a single male residing in Tehran and accused of committing adultery with a married woman has been punished for his action by means of stoning, flogging or imprisonment, 1 March 1999, IRN31378.E, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ad0774.html [accessed 17 September 2023] |
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Three specialists on Iran stated that in recent years men have been flogged for adultery in Tehran. The punishment for unmarried adulterers is not death, but flogging. The specialists could not provide information on the imprisonment of men in Tehran for adultery cases.
This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum.
References
Sociologist, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Paris, France. 25 March 1999. Telephone interview. The sociologist is also a chargée de conférences at the Sorbonne-Nouvelle Paris-III. The sociologist, who travels frequently to Iran for field research, spent the summer of 1998 in Iran, and has published on Iran in academic reviews such as the Revue Française de Sciences Politiques, the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, in which she wrote on the situation of women in Iran, and Les Cahiers de l'Orient.
Director, Centre for Arab and Iranian Studies (CAIS) who is also the editor of a newsletter on Iran called Al-Moujez (Iran Briefing), Ohio. 26 March 1999. Telephone interview.
Researcher specialist on Iranian opposition groups at Écoles des hautes études en sciences sociales (ÉHÉSS) de Paris. 19 March 1999. Telephone interview.
Additional Sources Consulted
Electronic sources: Internet (Women's Websites), WNC, LEXIS-NEXIS.
Women Living Under Muslim Laws. Various articles on Iran.
Women Information Network (WIN). 1996-1999.