Woman sentenced to stoning death seeks appeal

A Pakistani woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery today said she had been misled by her lawyers into claiming she was raped, and that the baby was actually her husband’s.

Zafran Bibi, 28, was convicted on April 17 by a civil court in Kohat, in Pakistan’s remote northwestern frontier region, for having conceived and delivered a baby while her husband, Niamat Khan, was in jail.