On Wednesday, the Iranian woman who faced stoning to death for adultery denounced her lawyer and confessed to adultery and being an accomplice to her husband’s killing. But her lawyer and human rights groups assert the mother of two was coerced to make these statements that aired on state television.
In 2006, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani was convicted of having an “illicit relationship” with two men after her husband died. She was sentenced to 99 lashes and later convicted of adultery and sentenced to be stoned. She was also convicted of helping murder her husband.
“Last month, Iran suspended the stoning sentence temporarily after international outrage over the brutality of the punishment,” Voice of America reported Thursday. “But an Iranian TV broadcast Ashtiani’s alleged confession late Wednesday, in which she admitted to a sexual affair. She described in her native Azeri dialect, which was translated in Farsi, how she and her lover killed her husband.”
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