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| Iran hangs Reyhaneh Jabbari despite campaign | Iran hangs Reyhaneh Jabbari despite campaign |
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| Iran has executed a woman who killed a man she said was trying to sexually abuse her, her mother says. | Iran has executed a woman who killed a man she said was trying to sexually abuse her, her mother says. |
| Reyhaneh Jabbari, 26, was hanged in a Tehran prison despite an international campaign urging a reprieve. | Reyhaneh Jabbari, 26, was hanged in a Tehran prison despite an international campaign urging a reprieve. |
| Jabbari was arrested in 2007 for the murder of Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi, a former employee of Iran's ministry of intelligence. | Jabbari was arrested in 2007 for the murder of Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi, a former employee of Iran's ministry of intelligence. |
| Human rights group Amnesty International said she was convicted after a deeply flawed investigation. | Human rights group Amnesty International said she was convicted after a deeply flawed investigation. |
| A campaign calling for a halt to the execution was launched on Facebook and Twitter last month and appeared to have brought a temporary stay in execution. | |
| However, government news agency Tasnim said on Saturday that Jabbari had been executed after her relatives failed to gain consent from the victim's family for a reprieve. | |
| It said her claims of self-defence had not been proved in court. | |
| Her mother, Shole Pakravan, confirmed the execution in an interview with BBC Persian, saying she was going to the cemetery to see her daughter's body. | |
| Amnesty said that although Jabbari admitted to stabbing Abdolali Sarbandi once in the back, she alleged that there was someone else in the house who actually killed him. | |
| After her arrest, she was placed in solitary confinement for two months, where she reportedly did not have access to a lawyer or her family. | |
| She was sentenced to death by a criminal court in Tehran in 2009. |