(Iran) Stephen McEveety produces ‘Stoning of Soraya M.’
— “Producer Stephen McEveety’s new film depicts a modern stoning in Iran”
— “adapted from the 1994 nonfiction of the same name by the French-Iranian journalist Freidoune Sahebjam, who traveled to a small Iranian village in the mid-1980s and came across the story of an innocent woman stoned to death over concocted charges of infidelity”
— “The fabricated charge was adultery, which under the town leaders’ judgment was a crime not only against her husband but also Islam. The penalty was death by public stoning, and nothing Zahra or Soraya could do or say would stop it. ‘It is God’s law,’ one person says, while the local mullah says, ‘With each stone you throw, your honor will return.'”
— “Director and co-writer Cyrus Nowrasteh spares little in depicting the execution, in which Soraya is buried to her chest with her arms bound, and pelted with heavy rocks from close range until she bleeds to death.”
— Web Site for ‘The Stoning of Soraya M.’
— The Stoning of Soraya M. (Hardcover) – by Freidoune Sahebjam (Author)
