Fox News reports:
Iran has hanged a woman convicted of murdering a man she said
was trying to rape her.
The official IRNA news agency says Reyhaneh
Jabbari was hanged at dawn Saturday for premeditated murder. It quoted the
court ruling as rejecting the claim of attempted rape and saying all evidence
proved that Jabbari had plotted to kill Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi, a former
intelligence agent.
The court ruling says Jabbari, 27, stabbed
Sarbandi in the back in 2007 after purchasing a knife two days earlier.
The execution was carried out after Sarbandi’s
family refused to pardon Jabbari or accept blood money.
Amnesty International and other human rights
groups had called on Iran’s judiciary to halt the execution.
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