Stoning
Tuesday, May 22, 2001
They tied the body to a stake. Around that wooden pole a hole was dug, half a meter deep. Dozens of people encircled it.
One by one, slowly gathering speed, and working more and more as a group, those people threw stones – dozens upon dozens of stones – at the body which could find no escape. A few dozen stones struck the chest and groin. Others hit the head. Some pierced the eyeballs, smashed the nose, gashed the forehead. Blood flo
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