On June 29th, Alaa Bader Abdullah Al Hashemi, a 30-year-old Emirati woman, was sentenced to death for fatally stabbing an American kindergarten teacher.

In December of last year, American kindergarten teacher Ibolya Ryan was fatally stabbed with a kitchen knife in the restroom of an Abu Dhabi shopping mall. 

On June 29th, Alaa Bader Abdullah Al Hashemi, a 30-year-old Emirati woman, was sentenced to death for the murder.


Though Al Hashemi showed no emotion while the verdict was being read, she cast a smile at her brother and father as she was taken