Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani and her son speaks to foreign media - Iran 1 Jan. 2011

Reuters report 1 January 2011.

Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani's sentence to be stoned to death was suspended after an international outcry, but she still faces possible execution by hanging.

After having dinner with her children at the same place where her son Sajjad Ghaderzadeh had earlier talked to reporters, Ashtiani said she was not tortured while in prison, adding "these are all rumors."

"Whatever interview I have given so far, I have given voluntarily. No one has forced me. I have spoken on my own accord," she told reporters.

Ghaderzadeh, who faces his own court case after talking to two German reporters about his mother's sentence, told foreign media earlier on Saturday his mother had violated Islamic law but called for compassion and forgiveness.

"In my opinion my mother is also guilty but since we have lost our father we do not want to lose our mother too. Consequently, we ask for a commutation of the penalty," he told reporters in the city of Tabriz, in northwestern Iran.

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[StarsDieStarsDie]

Wow, freedom of expression! ;)

[Estas01]

She says those two German journalists brought shame on her. Cracks me up. She was the one who was sleeping around and somehow it's their fault. Ha ha... I agree she shouldn't be stoned as it is not a stone age any longer (apparently in Iran it is), but there's no reason to blame those two guys.

[KGermany]

oh oh, jetzt ist sie kurz vor der Hinrichtung, wo das scheiss islamisches Verbrecher-regime sie zur dieser Aufnahme gezwungen haben und ihnen vorgeschrieben haben, was sie sagen sollen. Das machen die immer and dann folgt die Hinrichtung