Iran 'postpones' woman's hanging

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Iran 'delays' Reyhaneh Jabbari execution after campaign

(BBC) 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 that Reyhaneh Jabbari, 26, had been transferred to a prison west of Tehran to be hanged.

But activists claimed on Tuesday 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.

Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29429942

-- BBC 2014-10-01

[Seastallion]

This is world news?

That a woman was sentenced to death, or that she has had a reprieve, or that the prosecution case was flawed?

[webfact]

This is world news?

That a woman was sentenced to death, or that she has had a reprieve, or that the prosecution case was flawed?

yes it is world news

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[Strangebrew]

Maybe men jealous she will be more hung than them.

[giddyup]

Maybe men jealous she will be more hung than them.

That is about the dumbest thing I have ever read on the forum.

[loongdavid]

"...Iran's Ministry of Intelligence..." Surely a contradiction in terms !

[Andre0720]

I think she did the world a favour...

The Coran act as a shield so that these people cannot see clearly...

[ggt]

A little sadistic mental cruelty going on here?...take her to the brink...all the mental suffering by her, family, friends...

[ABCer]

I don't understand how it is NEWS ?

Arrested in 2007...

for alleged murder...

incarcerated for 2 months in solitude...

confessed to stabbing...

convicted to death in 2009...

... today is end of 2014... ?

How much time Iranians spend on praying every day? I know how many times a day they are doing it.

And what's the point in a 10 days reprieve after 5 years of being on a row?

Can OP give us more information on who did what and who said what in this trial of 7 years? It looks like a Koh Tao murder investigation.

Even mention of the man's being a member of Iran Intelligence Service. A solitary woman with a knife against Intelligent State!

Edited October 1, 2014 by ABCer

[RubbaJohnny]

Hey big suspender.....