Soraya Manutchehri was a 35-year-old woman who was stoned to death in the small village of Kuhpayeh, Iran on 15 August 1986 after being allegedly convicted of adultery. Though no one knows whether or not she was actually guilty, unnamed witnesses have claimed that her husband was eager to get rid of her in order to marry a younger woman, and therefore spread false rumors of her adultery.[1]
Her death was the subject of a 1990 novel, La Femme Lapidée, by Freidoune Sahebjam. The novel was later adapted as a film, The Stoning of Soraya M. (2008).