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1 December 2010 Last updated at 10:32 GMT
Iran hangs footballer's mistress Shahla Jahed
Iranian Khadijeh Shahla Jahed, file photo, 2004 Shahla Jahed had spent nine
years in the notorious Evin prison
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Iran has executed a woman sentenced to death for murdering the wife of a
prominent footballer, her lawyer says.
Abdolsamad Khoramshahi said Shahla Jahed, 40, was hanged at 0500 local time
(0130 GMT) at Tehran's Evin prison, the official Irna news agency reported.
International human rights groups have campaigned for her release since she was
jailed nine years ago.
The execution is the 146th in Iran this year, according to AFP news agency.
On Tuesday, Amnesty International made a last-minute appeal for the sentence to
be halted, saying Jahed had not received a fair trial.
Jahed, who had been living with footballer Nasser Mohammadkhani in Tehran under
a temporary marriage, was found guilty of stabbing to death his first wife,
Laleh Saharkhizan, in 2002.
She first confessed to the murder, but then retracted the statement in court.
She had spent more than eight years in Iran's notorious Evin prison.
According to Irna, Jahed prayed prior to the hanging and then burst into tears
and shouted for her life to be spared.
Mr Mohammadkhani, a top Iranian footballer in the late 1980s who later became
coach for Tehran's Persepolis club, was present at the execution, reports said.
'Procedural flaws'
The practice of a temporary marriage, known as sigheh, is allowed under Shia
Islam.
It prevented Mr Mohammadkhani from facing charges of adultery, although he was
sentenced to 74 lashes for drug-taking after the court heard he had smoked
opium with his mistress.
He was initially suspected of complicity in the murder and jailed for several
months, but released after Jahed's confession.
Malcolm Smart, Amnesty director for the Middle East and North Africa, said
there were "strong grounds to believe that Shahla Jahed did not receive a fair
trial, and may have been coerced into making a 'confession' during months of
detention in solitary confinement".
"She retracted that confession at her trial but the court chose to accept it as
evidence against her," he added in a statement.
The verdict was overturned in 2008 after the judiciary cited "procedural flaws"
but Jahed was again sentenced to death in February 2009.
Iran has attracted international criticism over the separate case of Sakineh
Mohammadi Ashtiani, an Iranian woman who was sentenced to death by stoning for
adultery.
After campaigns for her release around the world, her stoning sentence was
suspended, although she could still be hanged for murder.
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