DHAKA: Iran has executed a woman Reyhaneh Jabbari who killed a man she said was trying to sexually abuse her.

Jabbari’s mother says, reports the BBC.

Reyhaneh Jabbari, 26, was hanged in a Tehran prison despite an international campaign urging a reprieve.

Jabbari was arrested in 2007 for the murder of Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi, a former employee of Iran’s ministry of intelligence.

Human rights group Amnesty International said she was convicted after a deeply flawed investigation.

BDST: 1230 HRS, OCT 25, 2014