Iran Woman Stoning

The ongoing protests in Iran intensified on Wednesday as demonstrators hurled stones over security forces following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini days after detention by Iran's morality police, a US-based media report said.

An Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery confessed to helping a man kill her husband and re-enacted the alleged crime in an interview broadcast Friday by Iranian state television -- an apparent effort by the government to deflect international criticism over the case.It was the fourth time Sakineh Mohammedi Ashtiani has been show...

Iran's state TV said on Friday it will air new footage of an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, the latest in state-orchestrated broadcasts on a case that has raised an international outcry.The English-language Press TV said the footage will be aired late today and that it will show Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani at her home in n...

Iranian authorities have suspended the sentence of death by stoning for a woman convicted of adultery, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday, after weeks of condemnation from around the world."The verdict regarding the extramarital affairs has stopped and it's being reviewed," Foreign Ministry Ramin Mehmanparast told Iran's state-run English-langu...

The son of an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery said Monday that he fears she will be executed shortly after this week's end to the Muslim holy month of Ramzan.Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani's 22-year-old son Sajjad Mohammadi Ashtiani was speaking by telephone to a news conference organised in Paris by the French philosopher Be...

Iran told Western nations today to stay out of the case of a woman who faces death by stoning, warning it will not tolerate any interference in the matter still under examination."Independent nations do not allow other countries to interfere in their judicial affairs," Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told in a news conference....

Iran has told Western nations to stay out of the case of a woman who faces death by stoning, warning it will not tolerate any interference in the matter still under examination."Independent nations do not allow other countries to interfere in their judicial affairs," Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told in a news conference.Th...

Iran's judiciary says the controversial stoning sentence for a woman convicted of adultery will not be implemented for now.Malek Ajdar Sharifi, the top judicial official in the province where the woman was convicted has told the state news agency the sentence "will not be implemented for the time being."He added in Sunday's report that the death se...

Iran's top human rights official says the death by stoning sentence for a 43-year-old woman convicted of adultery is under review.The sentence to stone Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani to death drew worldwide outcry after it was publicized by her lawyer, who had warned, she was facing imminent execution.British media reported late Thursday that the stoni...

The ongoing protests in Iran intensified on Wednesday as demonstrators hurled stones over security forces following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini days after detention by Iran's morality police, a US-based media report said.

An Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery confessed to helping a man kill her husband and re-enacted the alleged crime in an interview broadcast Friday by Iranian state television -- an apparent effort by the government to deflect international criticism over the case.It was the fourth time Sakineh Mohammedi Ashtiani has been show...

Iran's state TV said on Friday it will air new footage of an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, the latest in state-orchestrated broadcasts on a case that has raised an international outcry.The English-language Press TV said the footage will be aired late today and that it will show Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani at her home in n...

Iranian authorities have suspended the sentence of death by stoning for a woman convicted of adultery, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday, after weeks of condemnation from around the world."The verdict regarding the extramarital affairs has stopped and it's being reviewed," Foreign Ministry Ramin Mehmanparast told Iran's state-run English-langu...

The son of an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery said Monday that he fears she will be executed shortly after this week's end to the Muslim holy month of Ramzan.Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani's 22-year-old son Sajjad Mohammadi Ashtiani was speaking by telephone to a news conference organised in Paris by the French philosopher Be...

Iran told Western nations today to stay out of the case of a woman who faces death by stoning, warning it will not tolerate any interference in the matter still under examination."Independent nations do not allow other countries to interfere in their judicial affairs," Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told in a news conference....

Iran has told Western nations to stay out of the case of a woman who faces death by stoning, warning it will not tolerate any interference in the matter still under examination."Independent nations do not allow other countries to interfere in their judicial affairs," Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told in a news conference.Th...

Iran's judiciary says the controversial stoning sentence for a woman convicted of adultery will not be implemented for now.Malek Ajdar Sharifi, the top judicial official in the province where the woman was convicted has told the state news agency the sentence "will not be implemented for the time being."He added in Sunday's report that the death se...

Iran's top human rights official says the death by stoning sentence for a 43-year-old woman convicted of adultery is under review.The sentence to stone Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani to death drew worldwide outcry after it was publicized by her lawyer, who had warned, she was facing imminent execution.British media reported late Thursday that the stoni...