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Iran has executed a 26-year-old woman convicted for killing a man who she said tried to sexually abuse her.

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

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She was hanged at dawn on Saturday, the official IRNA news agency quoted the Tehran prosecutor’s office as saying.

A message posted on the homepage of a Facebook campaign that was set up to try to save her, but which now states “Rest in Peace,” appeared to confirm the report.

Efforts for clemency had intensified in recent weeks.

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