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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Iran reviewing woman's stoning death sentence AFP - Sunday, July 11 Send IM Story Print TEHRAN (AFP) - – Iran was reviewing a sentence of stoning to death against a woman accused of adultery, a rights official said, but her lawyer warned Saturday there was no guarantee the execution would be halted. Mohammad Javad Larijani, Iran's top human rights official, said late Friday that the verdict of death by stoning against Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani is being reviewed by the judiciary. "She was sentenced to 90 lashes by one court and stoning by another. The verdict is under revision," Larijani was quoted as saying by state news agency IRNA. He said the chief of Iran's judiciary, Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani, was of the opinion that it was preferable to use another penalty instead of stoning "and that is true for Ms Mohammadi-Ashtiani." Larijani did not say what penalty she could face instead, but added: "The penalty of stoning exists under the law but the judges rarely use it." Her lawyer Mohammad Mostafai told AFP on Saturday that he had yet to receive any official confirmation that the stoning sentence had been revised. "There is no guarantee that it will be halted," he said. The Iranian embassy in London said in a statement reported by The Times on Friday that Mohammadi-Ashtiani would no longer be stoned to death. The embassy said that "according to information from the relevant judicial authorities in Iran, (Mohammadi-Ashtiani) will not be executed by stoning." Mohammadi-Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother of two, was convicted on May 15, 2006 of having an "illicit relationship" with two men, according to Amnesty International and her lawyer. Amnesty said she received flogging of 99 lashes as per her sentence but was subsequently accused of "adultery while being married" in September 2006 during the trial of a man accused of murdering her husband. Mostafai said his client knew the man who "killed her husband and because she was at home when the murder took place, she was accused as accomplice." "But after her kids pardoned her in the case of murder, she now stands accused of adultery with that man." Mostafai added that such cases involving women in Iran arise due to difficulties in getting divorces with husbands despite "having troubled marriages." Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa deputy director, urged Iran to spare Mohammadi-Ashtiani's life, saying a "mere change" in the method of execution was not enough. "To punish -- and in some cases execute -- people for being in consenting relationships is no business of the state," the Amnesty official said. The stoning sentence has also sparked outcry in Western countries. US State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters in Washington that "stoning as a means of execution is tantamount to torture. It's barbaric and an abhorrent act." British Foreign Secretary William Hague said in London that if the "mediaeval" execution went ahead it would "disgust and appall" the world. An open letter condemning the execution has also been signed by figures such as former US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, three ex-British foreign ministers, Nobel peace laureate Jose Ramos-Horta and actor Robert De Niro. Larijani insisted that any revision of Mohammadi-Ashtiani's sentence would not be due to pressure from the West. "The (Iranian) judiciary cannot change its course because of the West's attack and media pressure," he said. "The Western assault in this regard has no effect on our judges' view. The rulings of the sharia (Islamic law) such as stoning... have always faced their (West) outrageous hostility. Any issue that comes from sharia is met with their opposition." In January 2009, Iranian media reported that seven people faced death by stoning. One of them, a man, was later executed by hanging in February 2009. Another man, accused of adultery, was stoned to death on March 5 in a prison in the northern city of Rasht. On October 4, a man and woman, accused of adultery were set free after their defence lawyers won the appeal. Prior to the stoning in Rasht, Iranian media claimed that five Iranians had been stoned to death over the preceding four years, including two men in Mashhad in December 2008. These stonings were carried out despite a 2002 directive by then judiciary chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahrudi imposing a moratorium on such executions. Recommend Send IM Story Print Related Articles Israel foils Libyan plans to sail aid ship to Gaza AFP - 48 minutes ago Gaza aid ship 'headed for Egyptian port' AFP - 1 hour 54 minutes ago Russian, US spies start new lives but mystery swirls AFP - 14 minutes ago Smoke comes out from the scene of an explosion in Kandahar south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Saturday, July 10, 2010. 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