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    Woman hanged in Iran, despite campaign

    Kitkat
    Kitkat

    Woman hanged in Iran, despite campaign Empty Woman hanged in Iran, despite campaign

    Post by Kitkat Sat 25 Oct 2014, 11:44

    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.

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    And (from the same above link) .....
    this rather harrowing list of [recorded] Global executions for the year 2013 alone:

       China: 1,000+
       Iran: 369+
       Iraq: 169+
       Saudi Arabia: 79+
       United States: 39
       Somalia: 34+
       Sudan: 21+
       Yemen: 13+
       Japan: 8
       Others: 42+ (in 12 countries)

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