{"id":59369,"date":"2014-10-25T10:27:33","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T10:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=59369"},"modified":"2014-10-25T10:30:49","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T10:30:49","slug":"iran-hangs-woman-despite-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=59369","title":{"rendered":"Iran hangs woman despite campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iran has executed a woman who killed a man she said was trying to sexually abuse her.<\/p>\n

Reyhaneh Jabbari, 26, was hanged in a Tehran prison despite an international campaign urging a reprieve.<\/p>\n

Jabbari was arrested in 2007 for the murder of Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi, a former employee of Iran’s ministry of intelligence.<\/p>\n

Human rights group Amnesty International said she was convicted after a deeply flawed investigation.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

It said her claims of self-defence had not been proved in court.<\/p>\n

‘True intentions’<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Execution room in Virginia, United States<\/div>\n

Global executions for 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n