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Stoned for Adultery: How Islam’s Laws Are Being Overlooked
Amid a global outcry over a couple stoned to death for adultery in Afghanistan, Eliza Griswold asks why an Islamic law designed to protect women’s rights is being used against them today.
Eliza Griswold
Published
Aug. 17 2010
7:10PM EDT
A woman in Berlin dressed as a stoning victim to protest the stoning sentence of an Iranian woman. (Sean Gallup / Getty Images)
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