Condemned Iranian woman 'admits to killing'

An Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery confesses to helping a man kill her husband in a re-enactment on state television – the latest state-orchestrated broadcast in a case that has raised an international outcry.

An Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery confesses to helping a man kill her husband in a re-enactment on state television – the latest state-orchestrated broadcast in a case that has raised an international outcry.

Today’s broadcast on English-language Press TV is an apparent attempt to deflect international criticism over the adultery sentence by bolstering Iran’s separate charge that Sakineh Mohammedi Ashtiani also was involved in murder.

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