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Alaa Bader al-Hashemi, 30, was executed
at dawn after President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan approved the death
sentence issued last month, the official WAM news agency said.
It cited prosecutors at the state
security court but did not say how the execution was carried out.
Hashemi had been sentenced to death
after being found guilty of stabbing to death Ibolya Ryan, 47, a mother of
three, in a toilet of the shopping complex on December 1, 2014.
She was also convicted of placing a
handmade pipe bomb outside an Egyptian-American doctor's home in the United
Arab Emirates capital on the same day, although the device failed to explode.
Hashemi was found to have used an
Internet account to spread information that was likely to
"jeopardise" the United Arab Emirates, according to the verdict.
She also was found guilty of having
sent funds to Al-Qaeda in Yemen, knowing that this money would be used for
"terrorist acts".
The ruling was made by the Federal
Supreme Court in Abu Dhabi, which cannot be appealed but require the formal
approval of the head of state in the UAE, where executions are rare.
Hashemi had been dubbed the "Reem
Island Ghost" after the location of the mall where the stabbing of Ryan
took place.
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Tracked down using CCTV footage of her
going into and out of the restroom where the murder occurred and near the
doctor's building, Hashemi was arrested 48 hours later.
She was dressed in black from
head-to-toe as she carried out both attacks.
Hashemi was arrested at her home where
her car was found with blood on the steering wheel and bomb making materials
inside.
During her trial, Hashemi had asked the
court to provide her with psychological help, saying she had "unreal
visions" and would see "ghost-like people" due to a chronic
mental illness.
The court ordered psychiatric tests
which it said showed she was aware of her actions.
In March, Attorney General Salem Saeed
Kubaish said investigators found she had "listened to lectures by late
Al-Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, watched video clips
of killings and beheadings," among other similar activities.
She "embraced takfiri and jihadist
ideology and then engaged in terrorist acts in support of the terrorist
organisations Al-Qaeda and Daesh," he said using an Arabic acronym for the
Islamic State group
An AFP Report
An AFP Report
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