Iran Hangs Woman at Center of Amnesty Group Campaign
A picture taken on Dec. 15, 2008 at a court in Tehran shows Iranian Reyhaneh Jabbari speaking to defend herself during the first hearing of her trial for the murder of a government employee. Jabbari said that she had acted in self-defense. Photographer: Golara Sajadian/AFP via Getty Images/ Iranian authorities executed a woman found guilty of murder despite a campaign by rights group Amnesty International to have her sentence overturned on grounds that the investigation had been “deeply flawed.” Reyhaneh Jabbari, 26, was hanged yesterday, ...
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