Khadijeh Shahla Jahed (10 May 1969 – 1 December 2010) was an

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nurse who was sentenced to death for her involvement in the murder of her boyfriend's wife. She was hanged on 1 December 2010, being the 146th person to be executed in Iran in that year.

Case and sentencing

Jahed had been living with Nasser Mohammadkhani, an Iranian footballer becoming his mistress in a

temporary marriage Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses. It establishes rights and obligations between them, as well as between them and their children (if any), and b ...

. Jahed was arrested and charged for the 9 October 2002 murder of Laleh Saharkhizan, Mohammadkhani's wife. Mohammadkhani was in Germany when the killing happened, but it emerged later that he was "temporarily married" to Jahed, a practice allowed under

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. Jahed was tried and sentenced to death in June 2004. The footballer Mohammadkhani first faced charges of adultery. These were later dropped, and he was sentenced to 74

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for taking drugs after the court heard he had smoked opium with Jahed.

Execution

International human rights groups had campaigned for her release as she had already been jailed for more than eight years. One day prior to the execution,

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made a last-minute appeal for the execution to be halted, saying Jahed had not received a fair trial. Iranian courts halted the execution of Shahla Jahed when the case of

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became public. Jahed was executed on 1 December 2010 at 5am local time at the

Evin Prison Evin Prison () is a prison located in the Evin neighborhood of Tehran, Iran. The prison has been the primary site for detaining Iran's political prisoners since 1972, before and after the Iranian Revolution, in a purpose-built wing nicknamed "E ...

, north of

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. The victim's brother was allowed to pull the stool from under her feet.

References

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Shahla Jahed Biography
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