In a letter released Monday to the Brazilian president said Dilma Rousseff Sohre Elahian, chairman of the Human Rights Committee in the Iranian Parliament that the defendant no longer threatened with death by hanging. Because of the clemency petition of the Children of Aschtiani the penalty to a ten-year prison sentence was converted.
The letter was released by the Iranian news agency ISNA. After protests from foreign governments in the past year, Iran had suspended a sentence of stoning against Aschtiani. It had gone to the charge of adultery. However Aschtiani was also convicted of aiding and abetting the murder of her husband to death by hanging.
The case has attracted an international sensation. In October, two German reporters in Iran were arrested because they wanted to interview the son of Aschtiani without permission from the authorities. The case has already strained relations with the West and Iran further complicated. Iran is suspected of working secretly under the cover of a nuclear energy program on nuclear weapons.
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