Tehran – Iranian state TV has aired footage of a woman, claiming to be the one sentenced to death by stoning, saying she has not been lashed or tortured.
A blurry image showed a woman in a chador purporting to be Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, who was convicted of adultery in 2006.
The woman said that the reports of her being recently punished for a newspaper photograph were “false and rumours”.
Officials suspended her stoning sentence in July, but there are fears she will now be hanged. (BBC)
Man shoots doc at hospital
BALTIMORE – A man shot a doctor and then barricaded himself inside a room at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he remained holed up two hours after a shooting yesterday.
The doctor, who was shot in the stomach, was rushed to surgery and is expected to survive, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said.
He said he did not know the relationship between the gunman – described as a man in his 30s – and the doctor. (AP)
Crackdown on Jewish Sabbath
JERUSALEM – Israeli government offices that provide a wide array of public services are pulling the plug on online payments on the Jewish Sabbath and holidays, creating a potential new source of friction between the religious and secular in the Jewish state. (AP)
