Factbox: Facts about Iranian woman sentenced to stoning

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Factbox: Facts about Iranian woman sentenced to stoning

Reuters

Factbox: Facts about Iranian woman sentenced to stoning

The sentencing of an Iranian woman to be stoned to death for adultery led to an international outcry, prompting authorities in the Islamic Republic to suspend it, but she still faces possible execution by hanging. Following are facts on the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, 43. * Ashtiani's husband was murdered in 2005, after which an Iranian court convicted the mother of two of having an "illicit relationship" with two men. Amnesty International says she received 99 lashes as her sentence but she was subsequently convicted of "adultery ...

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Jan 1, 2011

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Iranian Sajjad Qaderzadeh, whose mother, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, has been sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, speaks with the media in a news briefing in the northwestern city of Tabriz, Iran, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011. Ashtiani's sentence of death by stoning, which Iran has put on ...

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