International human rights organizations had been pleading with Iran to stop the execution.
Iranian Reyhaneh Jabbari, center, sits while attending her trial in a court in Tehran, Iran.
AP Photo/Golara Sajjadian
Sarbandi was a physician and a former employee of the Ministry of Intelligence. He first met Jabbari, then 19, in Tehran in 2007, and heard her saying she worked as an interior designer, the New York Times reported. He then set up a time to work with her to "to assess a possible renovation."
Jabbari said that she killed Sarbandi out of self defense after he tried to rape her. The day of the incident, Jabbari was carrying a knife. During the trial, she said she had bought it several days earlier for protection. The Times reported that a police interrogator told officials that Jabbari stabbed Sarbandi in his back while he was praying, and that Sarbandi died after collapsing while running down a staircase. Jabbari was indicted for the attack and then convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to death by hanging.
The United Nations office for human rights argued that there is evidence showing Jabbari's conviction relied on a forced confession in which the witness was coerced and threatened with torture.
Iranian Reyhaneh Jabbari stands handcuffed in a police office in Tehran on July 8, 2007.
AP Photo/Golara Sajjadian
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