Presentation By : Sunny Kumar (2011ECS43)

(3rd Yr. SCSE )

CAST

Mozhan Marnò as Soraya M.

Shohreh Aghdashloo as Zahra

Jim Caviezel as Freidoune Sahebjam

Parviz Sayyad as Hashem

Vida Ghahremani as Mrs. Massoud

Navid Negahban as Ali

Vachik Mangassarian as Soraya's father

Bita Sheibani as Leila

PLOT

Based on a true story, The Stoning of Soraya M. is the

powerful tale of village's persecution of an innocent

woman as stoning.

Director Cyrus Nowrasteh illuminate the dangers of

religious fundamentalism, gender apartheid, and mob rule

over life.

Movie shows people’s hypocrisy in Islamic Punishment.

STORY

A journalist is approached by Zahra, Aunt of Soraya, to tell him about Soraya's

death, by stoning.

Zahra tells the journalist to escape to tell the story to the rest of the world.

Ali is Soraya's abusive husband who convince Soraya to grant him a divorce so

that he can marry a 14-year-old girl.

The mullah proposes that Soraya becomes his temporary wife ( sigheh ) in

exchange for protection and monetary support for Soraya and her two daughters.

Soraya refuses.

The mullah, the village's mayor, and Ali ask Zahra to persuade Soraya to care for

a man who has lost his wife.

Soraya starts working for the widower, and Ali plans to use the unusual

circumstance to spread lies that Soraya is being unfaithful to him so that she will

be stoned and he can remarry.

STORY (…)

Ali and the mullah start a rumor about Soraya's disloyalty so they can charge her with

adultery.

Ali and the mullah manipulates the widower into agreeing to back up their story.

Soon after, Ali drags Soraya through the streets, beating her and publicly declaring that

she has been unfaithful.

Zahra intervenes and they bring the widower to the house and after he lies and says that

they had engaged in adultery, a trial is pursued. She is quickly convicted.

Buried up to her waist in a hole dug for the occasion. Stoning begins with the name of

Almighty. She is pelted with rocks and majority by the male villagers, including her father,

husband and two sons, until she dies.

In this way, One men desire turned into a death of an innocence women.

ISSUES

Torture (Article 5)

Right to fair judgment (Article 10)

Discrimination (Article 2)

Death Penalty (Article3)

Religious extremism

CONLCUSION

As for women living under Islam's regimes, there is no escape.

If a man accused of Adultery, the women need to prove guilt but if a women accused with same, she need to prove her innocence.

Stoning is specifically meant as torture - rocks must be small enough so as not to deliver death too swiftly, and the process can apparently take many hours to complete. It portray the immense brutality.

CONCLUSION (…)

Gender Discrimination in punishment

CONCLUSION (…)

Different religions have different beliefs concerning capital punishment. Since not everyone is of the same religion and each person can even interpret the same religion differently. This is why governments should separate state and religion.

Honor killings is common issue women in many counties just to honor their Holy scriptures.

Article 105 of the Islamic Penal code of Iran allows a judge to rule according to his gut feeling instead of hard evidence. As a result, most of not all adultery cases are unfairly tried.

If someone involved in adultery, why Death?

SCENE

Don’t act like the Hypocrite,

Who think who can conceal his wiles,

While loudly quoting the Koran.

-Hafez, 14th century Iranian Poet

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