Victim of rapist woman has been executed
in Iran after being convicted of murdering a man who she claimed was trying to
rape her.
Reyhaneh Jabbari, 27, was
hanged in a Tehran prison despite an international campaign to stop the
execution.
She was sentenced to death
in 2009 for killing former intelligence agent Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi.
But Amnesty International
said she had been convicted after a "deeply flawed" investigation and
trial.
She apparently admitted to
stabbing him in the back but said another man also in the house killed him,
according to the human rights organisation.
Amnesty said her claims do
not appear to have ever been properly investigated and it had called for a
retrial.
A Facebook page, with more
than 17,000 likes, was set up to try to save her from execution - it now says
Rest In Peace.
Her execution had been put
off several times, including in the last month.
Britain has said it is
"concerned and saddened" by the execution.
Foreign Office minister
Tobias Ellwood said there were "questions around due process" in the
case and that such actions would not help Iran improve relations with the rest
of the world.
Amnesty spokeswoman Hassiba
Hadj Sahraoui said: "The shocking news that Reyhaneh Jabbari has been
executed is deeply disappointing in the extreme.
"This is another
bloody stain on Iran’s human rights record.
"Tragically, this case
is far from uncommon. Once again Iran has insisted on applying the death
penalty despite serious concerns over the fairness of the trial."
Jabbari was hanged at dawn
on Saturday for premeditated murder, the official IRNA news agency reported.
It quoted the court ruling
as rejecting the attempted rape claim and saying all evidence proved Jabbari
had plotted to kill the victim.
The court ruling said she
stabbed him in 2007 after buying a knife two days earlier.
The execution was carried
out after his family refused to pardon Jabbari or accept blood money.
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