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An Iranian woman whose sentencing to death by stoning has sparked international outrage has apparently confessed to adultery and talked about her husband's killing in a state television interview.
In the interview, aired on Wednesday night, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani also criticized her lawyer for publicizing her case, saying it had brought shame on her family. A human rights campaign group, the International Committee Against Stoning, called the
TV show "toxic propaganda". Ashtiani had previously denied the adultery accusations against her.
International media attention given to the case has highlighted Iran's high number of executions and may have spared Ashtiani from being stoned to death, according to her lawyer, who has fled to Europe.
With her face blurred and her words voiced over to translate them into Farsi from local dialect, it was...