Tehran - An Iranian court yesterday postponed a verdict in the case of a German charged with having sex with a Muslim woman. Defence lawyer Malek-Houshang Qahari said the court was still investigating the case against businessman Mr Helmut Hofer (58). "I don't know when the verdict will be issued, but what is certain is that Hofer will be acquitted."
Mr Hofer was sentenced to death last year for having sex with a 27-year-old unmarried medical student, but in February, Iran's supreme court threw out the execution order passed against him by two lower courts pending a retrial.