Iran hangs Jabbari despite campaign

TEHRAN, Oct 25 (BBC): Iran has gone ahead with an execution of a woman despite an international campaign urging a reprieve.
Reyhaneh Jabbari (26), was hanged in a Tehran prison Saturday morning. She had been convicted of killing a man she said was trying to sexually abuse her.
Jabbari was arrested in 2007 for the murder of Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi, a former intelligence ministry worker.
Human rights group Amnesty International said her execution was "deeply disappointing in the extreme".
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.
It said her claims of self-defence had not been proved in court. abbari's mother, Shole Pakravan, confirmed the execution in an interview with BBC Persian, saying she was going to the cemetery to see her daughter's body.
Ms Pakravan had been allowed to see her daughter for an hour on Friday.
After her arrest, Jabbari had been placed in solitary confinement for two months, where she reportedly did not have access to a lawyer or her family.
She was sentenced to death by a criminal court in Tehran in 2009.
Amnesty International said she was convicted after a deeply flawed investigation.
Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Amnesty's Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa Programmeme said: "This is another bloody stain on Iran's human rights record."