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Iranian TV shows footage with supposed Ashtiani awaiting stoning
Iranian state TV aired footage of a woman claiming to be the one sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, in a case which sparked outcry worldwide, where she says she has not been subject to beating or torture.
The woman, supposedly Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, was convicted of adultery in 2006 and sentenced to death by stoning.
The woman says that the reports of her being recently punished for a newspaper photograph were "false and rumours". Ashtiani had also reportedly received 99 lashes for indecency after appearing in public without a veil.
In the broadcast yesterday, the woman identified as Ms Ashtiani said she had "not been tortured, at all".
"All these words are my own words. Nobody has forced me to appear before a camera and whatever I say is my own words," she said in the Azeri language, with Farsi subtitles.
Another video confession was circulated on August 12, in relation to Ashtiani’s case, were she admitted to involvement in her husband’s murder.
In the week prior to the confession she had told the Guardian newspaper, through an intermediary, that Iranian officials were trying to "distract attention and confuse the media so that they can kill me in secret".
Officials suspended her stoning sentence in July, but there are fears she will now be hanged.
