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TEHRAN — Iran denied reports on Friday that it had freed a woman sentenced to death by stoning
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Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, 43,
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foreign news reports, citing a group based in Germany that supports her, said Iran’s authorities
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had release
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d Ms. Ashtian
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“We have got news from Iran that they are free,”
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She was originally sentenced to death by stoning for adultery but that sentenced was suspended and authorities have reframed the charges against her as murder.
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The news report also ran images of Ms. Ashtiani standing in the doorway of her home
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The photographs
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due to be aired on Press TV
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prompting further speculation that she had been released.
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An intelligently thought-out script acted with powerful but restrained emotion makes ''Shattered Dreams,'' a new made-for-television film about wife abuse to be seen tomorrow at 9 P.M. on CBS, a moving and believable drama.
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Mr. Fedders is depicted here as the ambitious, hard-working and bright but moody lawyer who had been director of enforcement for the Securities and Exchange Commission until his resignation after the publicity of a courtroom divorce trial. During that trial, his wife accused him of savagely beating her.
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Mrs. Fedders was brutally beaten seven times, yet until the final desperation, she always went back. The couple had five children during their 17-year marriage.
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Its credibility, of course, stems in part from the book of the same name on which it is based.
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'Shattered Dreams,'' in its very abstinence from sensationalism and unnecessary violence, reports it in the most effective manner.
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Yet the story's central theme in one way is the development of the wife's resolve, of overcoming her years of acquiescence to violence, even her acceptance of the suggestion that she shares responsibility for her own beating.
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"Removing mines from Iraq is difficult because there are no maps to indicate the mined areas," Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said at a government-organised landmines conference in Baghdad.
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Iraq called for international help on Monday to clear the estimated 20 million mines which pose a death threat in one of the world's most heavily mined countries after three decades of conflict.
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