Abu Dhabi: The UAE executed early on Monday Ala'a Badr Abdullah Al Hashimi, an Emirati woman convicted of terrorism two weeks ago, after the killing of an American kindergarten teacher in December 2014.
Ala'a, 31, was sentenced to death two weeks ago for stabbing Romanian-born Ibolya Ryan in the capital's Boutik Mall on Reem Island and attempting to bomb an American-Egyptian doctor.
Ala’a was executed by firing squad, security officials told Gulf News.
Hashimi carried out the attack shrouded in a full black veil and gloves.
She was also convicted of setting up a social media account to spread militant ideology with the intention of undermining the government and of giving money to Yemen’s Al Qaeda organisation for attacks.
Ryan was murdered in a toilet cubicle in Abu Dhabi's Boutik Mall on December 1. On December 4, the Minister of Interior announced Ala'a's arrest.
Attorney General of the State Security Prosecution, Ahmad Al Danhani, said the execution was carried out after the President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan approved the verdict issued on June 29.
The Federal Supreme Court, headed by Judge Falah Al Hajri, sentenced Al Hashimi to death after she was found guilty of terror-related offences, in accordance with the Federal law No.7 of 2014.
This is the first such verdict under the law.
She was convicted of deliberately killing the victim, stabbing her with a knife, and then proceeding to attempt to kill the residents of an apartment on Abu Dhabi Corniche by planting a primitive explosive device near the door of the flat.
She also faced charges of "collecting explosive materials, funding a terrorist organisation and running a social media account with a view to tarnish the image of the UAE and its leaders.”
Her death sentence was upheld by the State Security Court at the Federal Supreme Court on June 29.
