Amnesty International Criticizes Latest TV "Confession" in Iran by Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, Saying it Was Likely Made Under Duress

(London) -- Amnesty International today criticized the latest TV broadcast of a “confession” by Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, who is awaiting execution by stoning for adultery in Iran.Self-incriminating statements by her son Sajjad Qaderzadeh and two German journalists were also broadcast on the program, which aired on Iranian state TV on Monday night. A voiceover also said that the 43-year-old mother's lawyer, Javid Houtan Kiyan, had admitted to telling her son to lie. Amnesty International noted that international standards for fair trial, to which Iran is a state party, guarantee the