A/HRC/4/33/Add.1 Page 121 Para 102. Country Date 28/07/06 Type JUA Mandate TOR; VAW; Allegations transmitted 14 June 2006 and is currently detained at Evin prison in Tehran. His wife and family are not allowed to visit him. Ms A. K., mother of four children between the ages of nine and nineteen. She had an extra marital affair after her divorce request was rejected by the court, on the basis that she had children with her husband and therefore had to resume living with him. She was sentenced on two charges; the first was for participating in the murder of her husband, for which she received a sentence of 15 years imprisonment; the second was for adultery as a married woman, for which she was sentenced to execution by stoning in accordance with Article 83 of the Iranian Penal Code. A woman sentenced to stoning is to be buried in the ground up to a line above her breasts (Article 102 Penal Code) before being stoned with stones that should not be large enough to kill the person by one or two strikes, nor so small that they could not be defined as stones (Article 104 Penal Code). Ashraf Kolhari has been held in Tehran's Evin prison for five years, and should by law serve the remaining ten years of her prison sentence before she is executed. However, in July 2006, she received the order for the implementation of her sentence, and is due to be executed by stoning before the end of July. Ashraf Kolhari has written to the Head of the Judiciary, Ayatollah Shahroudi, asking for forgiveness. Government Response By letter dated 4/09/06, the Government reported that Ms A. K. has been charged with “adultery” and “accomplice in her husband’s murder” and accordingly sentenced to stoning and 15 years of imprisonment. The case is under review and the final verdict is still pending. It is to be noted that the moratorium of the Judiciary on stoning sentences is still in place.