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  • In this photo released by Iran's state-run Press TV, 43-year-old Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, who had been sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, wipes her face, as she attends an interview with Press TV, in the city of Tabriz, northwestern Iran, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Press TV)

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If Iran's supreme court puts aside Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani's stoning sentence, she could be executed by other means.

    'I am sinner' condemned woman said to say

    Iranian state television has broadcast a statement purportedly made by an Iranian woman who has been sentenced to death by stoning for adultery. In it, the woman calls herself a "sinner."

  • Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani (AP Photo/Amnesty International, ho)

    Iran holds 2 Germans linked to stoning case

    Iran on Tuesday accused two detained Germans of having links to Iranian exile groups after they were arrested reportedly while trying to interview the son of a woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery.

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    Son: Iranian woman who faced stoning death to be lashed

    Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, an Iranian woman who faces death by stoning for adultery, now has received a new sentence of 99 lashes after a British newspaper ran a picture of an unveiled woman mistakenly identified as her, her son said Monday.

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