Iran’s Supreme Court has handed the death penalty to a man and woman both accused of adultery after 10 months of investigations and court sessions, the Shargh daily reported.
“A married man and a married woman, who had been arrested for having a secret relationship, were sentenced to death,” wrote the daily.
Shargh identified the accused couple by their first names, the 27-year-old Meysam and the 33-year-old Sareh, adding that they were arrested after Maryam, Meysam’s wife, filed a complaint against them.
According to Shargh, the couple rejected the accusations at the court session. However, when the videos of their intimate affair, provided by Maryam, were shown at the court, the couple pled guilty and asked for pardon.
“I am a wife, I married in 2013, and I have a four-year-old son,” the daily quoted Sareh as saying.
“I got to know Maysam months earlier, and I liked him. [Before our arrest] at midnight, we went to Meysam’s bachelor pad, and at eight o’clock in the morning, we were arrested,” she added.
The daily also quoted Maryam as saying: “I’ve had suspicions for a while that my husband was having an affair with a young woman, and finally I accessed some evidence about their dirty secret relationship.”
According to this report, Maryam withdrew her complaint against her husband later. However, her father filed a complaint against Sareh and Meysam, and based on that, the couple was sentenced to death.
“During the past six months, I didn’t have a good relation with my husband because of some old disputes. And that’s why [I don’t care and] I forgive him and Sareh,” Maryam was quoted as saying about the reason for removing her complaint.
According to Iran’s Islamic law, adultery is punishable by stoning, but should first be confirmed by the head of the judiciary.
