Tehran , Iran ( CNN ) -- A woman sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery has not been executed , Iran 's official news agency reported Wednesday , rejecting `` Western media '' reports that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani had been executed . `` She is currently enjoying full health and is at the Tabriz Prison , '' the Islamic Republic News Agency quoted the head of the judiciary in the province as saying . `` Her case is being processed by the relevant judicial authorities of the province and is going through the due process , '' Hojatoleslam Malek Azhdar Sharif said . Her sentence of death by stoning drew worldwide outrage earlier this year . Authorities in Iran were reported to have given the go-ahead this week to execute Ashtiani as soon as Wednesday , although the method of killing her was not clear . French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Wednesday that he had spoken to his Iranian counterpart to urge Iran not to execute her . Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki assured him `` that a verdict in the case concerning Sakineh Ashtiani had not been reached by the Iranian legal authorities and that the information on her alleged execution did not correspond to reality , '' Kouchner said . Human rights groups and various governments have also urged Iran not to execute Ashtiani . Wednesday , European Union High Representative Catherine Ashton demanded that Iran stop the execution from going ahead and convert her sentence , a spokesman said in a statement . British Foreign Minister William Hague called the proposed stoning a `` barbaric punishment . '' `` I think it will damage Iran in the eyes of the world , '' Hague told reporters . `` It will be much better not to proceed with it . I think many people across the world are outraged by the punishment and the prospect of it being carried out , and I would urge them even now to desist from it . '' Iran said Wednesday the global reaction is just a way to pressure its government . `` They have become so shameless regarding the subject of human rights that they have turned the case of Sakineh Ashtiani , who has committed murder and betrayal , into a human rights issue and are using it against our nation , '' Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told the ISNA news agency . `` This case has been turned into a symbol of seeking freedom for women in the West and they are shamelessly demanding her freedom . They are , therefore , trying to turn an ordinary ( court ) case into a lever to pressure our nation . '' Ashtiani initially was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery . The Iranian government later said she was also convicted of murdering her husband , but her lawyer and family dispute that . Ashtiani , 43 and a mother of two , drew international attention when she was sentenced to death by stoning . She concedes that she was convicted of adultery , as initially reported , but says she was acquitted of murder . `` The man who actually killed my husband was identified and imprisoned , but he is not sentenced to death , '' she said in August . The Iranian government 's claims that she was convicted of murder are a lie , she told The Guardian newspaper through an intermediary . `` They are embarrassed by the international attention on my case , and they are desperately trying to distract attention and confuse the media so that they can kill me in secret . '' Ashtiani 's son and her attorney are still in jail after being arrested last month , said Mina Ahadi , a spokeswoman for the International Committee Against Stoning . Also still detained are two German journalists who tried to interview them . Before his arrest , Ashtiani 's son , Sajjad Ghaderzadeh , said court officials stole documents and files pertaining to the murder of his father in order to `` promote his mother as a murderer . '' Ahadi also said the Iranian regime `` fabricated '' the murder charges . In August , Ashtiani appeared on state TV confessing that she knew about a plot to kill her husband but felt she had been misled . Amnesty International condemned the interview . Ghaderzadeh and attorney Hootan Kian will not be issued a lawyer , because the government claims they do not need one , according to Ahadi . Ashtiani 's other former lawyer , Mohammad Mostafaei , is being protected by European diplomats after he fled to Turkey from Iran . Mostafaei claims that Iranian authorities tried to arrest him without cause . CNN 's Shirzad Bozorgmehr in Tehran , Iran , and Saskya Vandoorne in Paris , France , contributed to this report .
NEW : She ' ' is in ` ` full health '' and her case is being processed , France reports . She was scheduled to die by 2015 . Authorities gave the go - ahead for her execution this week . French Foreign Ministry says this has not happened .