Kamangir (Archer)

On the road to the village. The huge text on the hillside reads “Khameneii! We are there for you!” (also see this).

Iraj Shahbazi traveled to Aghche-kand, the village where Jafar Kiani was recently stoned to death. He writes about his conversations with the villagers about Jafar and the reason he was sentenced to stoning,

I went back to the village. While waiting for a ride to the town, a resident of the village came on his motorcycle. He insisted to give me a ride and told me about the day they stoned him. “We go to our farms for the whole day. When I came back that day, late in the evening, I heard about the stoning. No one knew in prior. They brought him and closed off the place. Then they killed him and took back his body. Everyone knows he was innocent. Because they killed him themselves. They did not tell anyone what his crime was. … Later I talked to a cab driver. He told me “I am not sure what their crime was. I have heard they kidnapped kids and took out their kidneys to sell” [the blogger tries to show that the whole stoning has been carried out so secretive that many even don't know the "crime" was adultery]. Someone else told me “I have no idea why they killed him, but they killed him brutally. He was killed by Basij members”.

The blogger believes that the administration has intentionally spread rumors about Jafar to aggreavate the calls of human right advocates. While I do not agree with him on that, and I think rumors are understandable consequences of a closed society, Iraj has managed to take pictures from the hole, where they stoned him and also the rather huge stones he was killed with. All pictures are from his blog, I have only merged them into fewer number of files. I have also tried to enhance the quality of the pictures. I warn you that bloody stone used to kill a man is not a pleasant scene.

The hole in which he was half-buried (click for more pictures).

Bloody stone used to kill Jafar (click for more pictures)

Iraj finds this bush close the stoning hole.