diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/luaj/vm2/LuaClosure.class b/core/src/main/java/org/luaj/vm2/LuaClosure.class
index 1b485a2f..83fa4ec3 100644
Binary files a/core/src/main/java/org/luaj/vm2/LuaClosure.class and b/core/src/main/java/org/luaj/vm2/LuaClosure.class differ
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/luaj/vm2/LuaClosure.java b/core/src/main/java/org/luaj/vm2/LuaClosure.java
index 25e9d60e..735c7a66 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/luaj/vm2/LuaClosure.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/luaj/vm2/LuaClosure.java
@@ -259,6 +259,9 @@ public class LuaClosure extends LuaFunction {
 		// process instructions
 		try {
 			for (; true; ++pc) {
+				if (Thread.currentThread().isInterrupted()) {
+					throw new LuaError("interrupted");
+				}
 				if (globals != null && globals.debuglib != null)
 					globals.debuglib.onInstruction( pc, v, top );
 
diff --git a/jse/src/test/java/org/luaj/vm2/FragmentsTest.java b/jse/src/test/java/org/luaj/vm2/FragmentsTest.java
index 50db64fd..00362cb6 100644
--- a/jse/src/test/java/org/luaj/vm2/FragmentsTest.java
+++ b/jse/src/test/java/org/luaj/vm2/FragmentsTest.java
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ package org.luaj.vm2;
 
 import java.io.Reader;
 import java.io.StringReader;
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference;
 
 import junit.framework.TestCase;
 import junit.framework.TestSuite;
@@ -162,6 +163,32 @@ public class FragmentsTest extends TestSuite {
 				"return ok\n");
 		}
 
+		public void testInterruptedThreadStopsRunningClosure() throws Exception {
+			final Globals globals = JsePlatform.debugGlobals();
+			final LuaValue chunk = globals.load("while true do end", "interrupt.lua");
+			final AtomicReference<Throwable> thrown = new AtomicReference<Throwable>();
+
+			Thread t = new Thread(new Runnable() {
+				public void run() {
+					try {
+						chunk.call();
+					} catch (Throwable e) {
+						thrown.set(e);
+					}
+				}
+			}, "luaj-interrupt-test");
+			t.start();
+
+			Thread.sleep(50);
+			t.interrupt();
+			t.join(2000);
+
+			assertFalse("lua thread should stop after interrupt", t.isAlive());
+			assertNotNull("expected LuaError from interrupt", thrown.get());
+			assertEquals(LuaError.class, thrown.get().getClass());
+			assertEquals("interrupted", thrown.get().getMessage());
+		}
+
 		public void testLongIntegerLiteralPrecision() {
 			runFragment(
 				LuaValue.varargsOf(new LuaValue[] {