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TEHRAN, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- The lawyer for an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning said he believes his client was whipped 99 times in prison for an offense she didn't commit.
Attorney Javid Houtan Kian said a woman in prison with Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani told him Ashtiani received 99 lashes because a photograph in a London newspaper mistakenly identified a woman without a headscarf as his client, CNN reported Tuesday.
Kian has not been allowed to speak to Ashtiani and neither the courts nor the prison will confirm the whipping.
"I know what she is saying is correct," Kian said of the unidentified prisoner. "If she is making this up, then how did she know that the reason for the flogging was over a photo released in a foreign newspaper?"
Kian said Ashtiani had asked the woman, who was released from prison, to inform her son that she had been whipped.
Ashtiani has been sentenced to death by stoning for adultery.
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