Thus tells an Iranian woman to a journalist passing through her town, in the new film, The Stoning of Soraya M., which opens today. She wants to tell the world about the atrocity of legally sanctioned death by stoning — specifically, the stoning death of her niece, whose husband decided to get rid of by falsely accusing her of adultery.
As the protests in Iran continue, the film shows, on a localized scale, some of the human toll which that country’s…
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