Death by stoning sentence may still be lifted
The comments, however, offered no clear evidence that Iran’s judiciary would commute the sentence against Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, who was taken from prison late on Saturday to meet with journalists in another bid by Iran to highlight her purported confession of helping her lover kill her husband.
Ashtiani denied she has been tortured in prison and admitted she was an accomplice to the murder. Security officials were present as she spoke.
