Sarah Hanson-Young (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 396 standing in my name and the name of Senator Humphries relating to the practice of death by stoning in Iran.

Leave granted.

I move the motion as amended:

That the Senate—

(a)

expresses its deep regret at the two stonings in Mashhad, Iran, in December 2008;

(b)

notes:

(i)

reports received by Amnesty International highlighting that as many as eight woman are at imminent risk of being stoned to death for adultery in Iran, and

(ii)

that Iran has one of the highest execution rates in the world; and

(c)

calls on the Australian Government to immediately urge the Iranian authorities to cease the punishment of death by stoning and halt all remaining executions of those sentenced to death.

Question agreed to.