TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's general prosecutor says two Germans who were arrested while reportedly trying to interview the son of a woman sentenced to death by stoning have admitted breaking the law by entering the country without the proper visas, a local news agency reported Friday.
The stoning sentence against the 43-year-old woman, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, has raised an international outcry, embarrassing Iran. The arrest of the two Germans — whom Tehran has accused of having links to Iranian exile groups — suggests how sensitive Iran is over the case.
Iran's top state prosecutor, Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehei, told the semiofficial Fars news agency late Thursday that the …
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