Tuesday, April 15, 2014
UN rights investigator urges Iran to halt execution of sexual assault victim
[JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran [official website] Ahmed Shaheed on Monday urged [press release] Iran to immediately halt the execution of Reyhaneh Jabbari, a woman sentenced to death of murdering Mortez Abdolali Sarbandi, a former employee of the Iranian Intelligence Ministry [official website, in Persian]. Jabbari, who is scheduled to be executed tomorrow, has maintained that Sarbandi was attempting to sexually assault her and that she killed him in...
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