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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. | |
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. | 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. | 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. | It said her claims of self-defence had not been proved in court. |
'True intentions' | |
Jabbari's 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. | |
Global executions for 2013 | |
Source: Amnesty International | |
Rise in number of global executions | |
Ms Pakravan had been allowed to see her daughter for an hour on Friday. | |
After her arrest, Jabbari had been 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. | She was sentenced to death by a criminal court in Tehran in 2009. |
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. | |
Jalal Sarbandi, the victim's eldest son, said Jabbari had refused to identify the man. | |
He told Iranian media in April: "Only when her true intentions are exposed and she tells the truth about her accomplice and what really went down will we be prepared to grant mercy," | |
The United Nations says Iran has executed about 250 people this year. |