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Iran today hanged a woman convicted of murdering her husband, whom she married while still a child.
Her conviction and eventual death has defied an international campaign for leniency, rights groups said.
Samira Sabzian, who had been in prison for the past decade, was executed at dawn today in Ghezel Hesar prison in the Tehran satellite city of Karaj, the Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) group said.
Her execution comes as concern grows over the numbers of people this year executed by Iran, where hundreds of people have been hanged mainly on drugs and murder charges, including more than a dozen women.
