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.
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.
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.
Source-BBC
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