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Iran Executes Woman Accused of Killing Man She Claimed Tried to Rape Her

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Getty 102514 ReyhanehJabbari?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1414255560646GOLARA SAJADIAN/AFP/Getty Images(TEHRAN, Iran) — A woman convicted of killing a man she claimed was trying to sexually abuse her was hanged on Saturday in a Tehran prison.

“The shocking news that Reyhaneh Jabbari has been executed is deeply disappointing in the extreme,” Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa Programme, said. “This is another bloody stain on Iran’s human rights record.”

Jabbari, 26, was arrested in 2007 for the murder of a former employee of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and was sentenced to death by a criminal court in Tehran in 2009.

She admitted to stabbing the man in the back, claiming that he tried to sexually assault her. She also claimed that a second man was also in the house at the time of the incident. Amnesty International says that those claims were never properly investigated.

Jabbari’s execution was deferred multiple times.

On Friday, Sahraoui noted that such occurrences are not uncommon. “Once again Iran has insisted on applying the death penalty despite serious concerns over the fairness of the trial.”


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