AN Iranian woman whose sentence of execution by stoning for adultery provoked a worldwide outcry will instead be hanged for murder today, a human rights group said.

AN Iranian woman who was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery is now facing a new punishment of 99 lashes because a British newspaper ran a picture of an unveiled woman mistakenly identified as her, the woman’s son said yesterday.

The son of an Iranian woman who faces death by stoning for adultery said authorities have imposed a new sentence of 99 lashes.