Reyhaneh Jabbari, seen here during a 2008 court date in Tehran, was executed in Iran Saturday. She had said she acted to defend herself from a potential rapist./ Reyhaneh Jabbari, 26, was executed by hanging in Tehran today, despite her appeals and calls from international activists for a new ...
In this picture taken on Dec. 15, 2008, Iranian Reyhaneh Jabbari, center, sits while attending her trial in a court in Tehran, Iran. Jabbari was hanged on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2014, who was convicted of murdering a man she said was trying to rape her, the official IRNA news agency reported./ Iran ...
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./ A picture taken on Dec. 15, 2008 at a court in Tehran ...
A protest by the International Committee Against Executions, focusing on Reyhaneh Jabbari, in Hanover, Germany, 5th October 2014./ Iran has executed a woman convicted of murdering a man she accused of trying to rape her when she was a teenager. after the dead man’s family refused to grant her a ...
Iran hanged a woman on Saturday who was convicted of murdering a man she said was trying to rape her, the official IRNA news agency reported. Amnesty International and other human rights groups had called on Iran's judiciary to halt the execution. But IRNA said Reyhaneh Jabbari was hanged at ...
The UN and international rights groups said that Reyhaneh Jabbari's trial in 2009 was deeply flawed and that her confession for the murder of a former intelligence official was obtained under intense pressure by Iranian authorities (AFP Photo/Golara Sajadian)/ Washington (AFP) - The United ...
A picture taken on July 8, 2007 shows Iranian Reyhaneh Jabbari standing handcuffed at police headquarters in Tehran after she was arrested for the murder of a former intelligence official./ Iran has hanged a woman who had been on death row for five years for killing her alleged rapist. The ...
Reyhaneh Jabbari, 26, was executed following five years on death row after she was found guilty of killing a man she claimed to have sexually assaulted her. (Photo courtesy: Facebook)/ Reyhaneh Jabbari, 26, convicted of murdering a former intelligence official she claimed to have raped her, was ...
A picture taken on December 15, 2008 at a court in Tehran shows Reyhaneh Jabbari speaking in her defence during her trial for the murder of a former intelligence official (AFP Photo/Golara Sajadian)/ Tehran (AFP) - Iran executed Saturday a 26-year-old woman who had spent five years on death row ...
U.S. State Department condemns execution, questions fairness of trial/ Woman was sentenced to death for the 2007 killing of a former intelligence ministry employee/ Rights group says she was sexually assaulted and killed her attacker in self-defense/ It says she was convicted of murder after "a ...
A picture taken on December 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 former intelligence official. | GOLARA SAJADIAN via Getty Images/ DUBAI, Oct 25 (Reuters) - A 26-year-old Iranian woman ...
Snapshots from across the country by Reuters photographers./ (Reuters) - A 26-year-old Iranian woman convicted of murdering a man she accused of trying to rape her as a teenager was hanged on Saturday, the official news agency IRNA said, despite international pleas for her life to be spared. ...
Iran hangs a woman convicted of murdering a man she had said was trying to rape her/ Rejecting pleas from human rights groups, Iran on Saturday hanged a woman convicted of murdering a man she had said was trying to rape her. Reyhaneh Jabbari, 27, was hanged at dawn, the official IRNA news agency ...
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran hanged a woman on Saturday who was convicted of murdering a man she said was trying to rape her, the official IRNA news agency reported. Amnesty International and other human rights groups had called on Iran’s judiciary to halt the execution. But IRNA said Reyhaneh Jabbari ...
A 26-year-old Iranian woman convicted of murdering a man she accused of trying to rape her as a teenager was hanged on Saturday, the official news agency IRNA said, despite international pleas for her life to be spared. Reyhaneh Jabbari walked to the gallows at dawn on Saturday in Tehran's Evin ...
A 26-year-old Iranian woman convicted of murdering a man she accused of trying to rape her as a teenager was hanged on Saturday, the official news agency IRNA said, despite international pleas for her life to be spared. Reyhaneh Jabbari walked to the gallows at dawn on Saturday in Tehran's Evin ...
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran has hanged a woman convicted of murdering a man she said was trying to rape her. The official IRNA news agency says Reyhaneh Jabbari was hanged at dawn Saturday for premeditated murder. It quoted the court ruling as rejecting the claim of attempted rape and saying all ...
A 26-year-old Iranian woman convicted of murdering a man she accused of trying to rape her as a teenager was hanged on Saturday, the official news agency IRNA said, despite international pleas for her life to be spared. Reyhaneh Jabbari walked to the gallows at dawn on Saturday in Tehran's Evin ...
year-old Iranian woman convicted of murdering a man she accused of trying to rape her as a teenager was hanged on Saturday, the official news agency IRNA said, despite international pleas for her life to be spared. Reyhaneh Jabbari walked to the gallows at dawn on Saturday in Tehran's Evin ...
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/ ...
Iran executed on Saturday a 26-year-old woman who had spent five years on death row for the murder of a former intelligence official, defying international pressure to spare her life. Reyhaneh Jabbari was hanged at dawn, the official IRNA news agency quoted the Tehran prosecutor's office as ...
Reyhaneh Jabbari, 26, was executed Saturday for the killing of Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi, whom she says tried to rape her./ An Iranian woman accused of killing a man she said tried to sexually assault her was executed by the Iranian government Saturday, despite international pleas for mercy. ...
Israeli protesters stamp on aid packages destined for Gaza/ Months after some Israelis started to protest against aid lorries entering Gaza at the main Kerem Shalom crossing, the battle has moved to other key junctions, where rival groups of activists do their best to block or protect aid ...
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Israel has said it would ignore any order to stop its offensive in Gaza/ The UN's top court, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), has issued a dramatic ruling, ordering Israel to "immediately halt its military offensive in Rafah". It acted in support of a South African application last week ...
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis paved the way for the canonization of the first saint of the millennial generation on Thursday, attributing a second miracle to a 15-year-old Italian computer whiz who died of leukemia in 2006. Carlo Acutis, born on May 3, 1991, in London and then moved with his Italian ...
The bodies of Hanan Yablonka, Orion Hernandez and Michel Nisenbaum were recovered from Jabalia overnight/ The bodies of three more Israeli hostages have been recovered from Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have said. They are those of Hanan Yablonka, Michel Nisenbaum and Orion Hernandez, it ...
Ukrainian National Guard 'Khartiia' brigade service member and a D-20 howitzer crew commander Ivan Liashko prepares to fire towards Russian troops in a front line in Kharkiv region/ MOSCOW/LONDON (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to halt the war in Ukraine with a negotiated ...
Ebrahim Raisi was laid to rest inside the Imam Reza Shrine, one of the holiest places in Shia Islam/ Iran's late President, Ebrahim Raisi, has been buried in his home city of Mashhad, four days after he was killed in a helicopter crash. The 63-year-old hard-line cleric was laid to rest in the ...