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| Iranian 'adulteress' may not be stoned to death |
| 2011-01-02 |
| Fars news agency reported Sunday that Iran's chief prosecutor suggested that the execution by stoning which Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani was condemned to over charges of adultery might be cancelled. However, he did not address the possibility that she would be executed by hanging. According to the senior prosecutor, the case was being reconsidered and that "anything is possible". He also said that the authorities allowed Ashtiani to be interviewed by the foreign press on Saturday and that: "We aren't concerned." Ashtiani was jailed in 2006 after being convicted of murdering her husband and having sexual relations with two other men. The punishment for adultery in the Iran is stoning. After international outcry, Iran announced that they would reexamine the case a few months ago. In an interview given yesterday, Ashtiani said that she would sue the two German journalists arrested in Iran two months ago charged with espionage. Ashtiani says that the two interviewed her son against Iranian law and caused her a great deal of embarrassment. Ashtiani also refuted claims that her confession was taken from her under duress. She criticized her lawyers for politicizing her trial as well. Iranian authorities first claimed that the two journalists entered Iran on a tourist visa but continued their work against the law. State prosecutor Malek Ajdar Sharifi said that since their interrogation it has been revealed that the two entered Iran as tourists, then held an interview with Ashtiani's son, but didn't present credentials that would prove that they were journalists. |
| Posted by:ryuge |