A round-up of today’s other stories in brief
Woman in Iran stoning case to be hanged
BERLIN – An Iranian woman whose sentence of execution by stoning for adultery provoked a worldwide outcry will instead be hanged for murder, a human rights group said.
“The authorities in Tehran have given the go-ahead to Tabriz prison for the execution of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani,” the International Committee against Stoning, a German-based campaign group, said on its website.
“It has been reported that she is to be executed [today].”
Officials in Iran were not available to confirm or deny the report. – (Reuters)
Serb leader to visit atrocity site
ZAGREB – Serbian president Boris Tadic will visit a notorious war atrocity site in Croatia this week to pay respects to 260 Croat hospital patients killed by Serb forces there.
Mr Tadic will tomorrow go to Vukovar, a Danube river town devastated by shelling from the Serb-led Yugoslav army. He will lay wreaths at Ovcara, a site commemorating some 260 Vukovar hospital patients executed after the Yugoslav army and Serb militia captured the town in 1991 after a three-month siege. – (Reuters)
Student convicted of stabbing MP
LONDON – A woman student was found guilty in a London court yesterday of trying to murder a British politician in revenge for him voting for the Iraq war.
Roshonara Choudhry (21) knifed former treasury minister Stephen Timms in the stomach during a regular monthly advice clinic at an east London community centre in May. She had been converted to violence by a radical preacher who is being sought in Yemen, a security source said. – (Reuters)