The execution of a 26-year-old Iranian woman who was sentenced to death for killing a man who allegedly tried to rape her has apparently been postponed for ten days.<br /><br />Reyhaneh Jabbari was arrested in 2007 for the killing of Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi, a former employee of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence. Jabbari, who was 19 at the time, maintains he drugged her and tried to rape her. <br /><br />She admits stabbing him in the back with a small pocket knife, but says another man in the house killed him – a claim which has never been properly investigated.<br /><br />Her family had said she was due to be executed on Tuesday. Amnesty International say they have been told by sources that she was granted a last minute stay of execution.<br /><br />Iranian authorities however say she was never on the list of people to be hung that day.<br /><br />Her case has drawn international outcry including from the UN Office for Human Rights http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=47581#.VCpvCq5gud4<br /><br />Facebook pages and a twitter account have been set up to support Jabbari.<br /><br />https://www.facebook.com/SaveReyhaneh <br /><br />https://www.facebook.com/SaveReihaneh?frefphoto<br /><br />https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SaveReyhanehJabbari&src=typd<br /><br />Amnesty has called for a full review into her case and for Iranian authorities to confirm that she won’t be hanged in a week and a half’s time. http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/Iran-must-halt-imminent-execution-of-26-year-old-woman-2014-09-29<br /><br />If Jabbari is hanged, she would be the 600th person to suffer the death penalty since Iranian President Rouhani took office in August last year.
