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UAE woman executed for killing American teacher

Published: 13 Jul 2015 - 10:06 am | Last Updated: 12 Jan 2022 - 05:32 am

 A fully veiled woman (right), the suspect in the killing of an American teacher in a shopping mall toilet, is shown walking through the mall in the Emirati capital in this CCTV image released by Abu Dhabi police on December 3, 2014. Abu Dhabi Police/AFP/File /

RIYADH:  The United Arab Emirates executed a UAE woman convicted of terrorism early on Monday after the militant-inspired killing of an American kindergarten teacher in December 2014, the state news agency WAM reported.

Ala'a Badr Abdullah al-Hashemi, 31, was sentenced to death a year ago for stabbing Romanian-born Ibolya Ryan, a mother of 11-year-old twins, in the toilet of an Abu Dhabi shopping mall and attempting to bomb an American-Egyptian doctor.

Hashemi was also convicted of setting up a social media account to spread militant ideology with the intention of undermining the government and, and of giving money to militant organizations for attacks, WAM reported.

The report did not disclose how Hashmei was executed.

Police said last year Hashemi had become radicalized over the internet and had not been targeting an American in particular, but was looking for a foreigner to kill at random.. Reuters