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IRAN: REYHANEH JABBARI EXECUTION POSTPONED AFTER CAMPAIGN
September 30, 2014: An Iranian woman due to be put to death for killing a man she said was trying to sexually abuse her is reported to have had her execution postponed.
Officials said on Monday (September 29) that Reyhaneh Jabbari, 26, had been transferred to a prison west of Tehran to be hanged.
But activists claimed on Tuesday (September 30) that an online campaign had persuaded the state to give her a 10-day reprieve.
The human rights group Amnesty International said she was convicted after a deeply flawed investigation.
Ms Jabbari was arrested in 2007 for the murder of Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi, a former employee of Iran's Ministry of Intelligence.
She was placed in solitary confinement for two months, where she reportedly did not have access to a lawyer or her family, and was sentenced to death by a criminal court in Tehran in 2009.
Amnesty said that although Ms Jabbari admitted to stabbing Mr Abdolali Sarbandi once in the back, she alleged that there was someone else in the house who actually killed him.
Her claim is believed to have never been properly investigated. (Sources: bbc, 30/09/2014)
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