Diary: Iranian stones are more deadly than their uranium

Amnesty International has reported that "up to nine women and two men in Iran are under sentence of execution by stoning, including one woman who was convicted of adultery and who claimed she was forced into prostitution." Imagine!

Amnesty is calling on the Iranian government for an immediate end to stoning, and has provided an online form through which you can send an e-mail message to the Ayatollah Sayed Ali Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Now, you might be sitting there thinking that Ahmadinejad and the Ayatollah are just a couple of psychos, and that you'd be wasting your time e-mailing them. Well, they might indeed be psychos, but putting pressure on deranged government officials has worked in the past, as evidenced by the 40,000+ prisoners of conscience who have been freed in the 45 years since Amnesty was founded.

So please speak out. The Iranian government needs to know that the world is watching and that the world is outraged. Help us put an end to stoning.

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