Iran's “barbaric” plan to execute Ashtiani, who was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, condemned internationally

 British Foreign Secretary William Hague said, "This is a barbaric punishment and I think it will damage Iran in the eyes of the world,"¹ "I would urge them, even now, to desist from it,".¹ Brazilian president-elect Dilma Rousseff also said it would be a "barbarous act."¹ Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani,¹ 43,²  was allegedly on a list of people to be executed in the coming days² and weeks.¹ The method of execution² and the crime for which she is to be executed are not know. 

Ashtiani was initially sentenced to hang for involvement in the murder of her husband, and to be stoned to death for committing adultery.¹ The first sentence was later reduced to 10 years in prison but her stoning sentence still stands.¹ She denies the Iranian government's claim she had been convicted of murder and said the allegation was meant to “confuse the media so that they can kill me in secret.”² Her son, Sajjad Ghaderzadeh, who was arrested last month and is now currently in prison, also said before his arrest that court officials stole files on the murder of his father so they could "promote his mother as a murderer."²

Sources: AFP, CNN