Reyhaneh Jabbari was hanged at dawn on Saturday.
On Saturday, Reyhaneh Jabbari was hanged for murdering a man she said was trying to rape her.
She had been arrested in 2007 for the murder of Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi, a 47-year-old former employee of Iran's Ministry of Intelligence. According to the New York Times, she stabbed him with a penknife in the back while praying.
Amnesty International said that although Jabbari admitted to stabbing him once, she always claimed that it wasn't her that actually killed him. It also described the investigation as "deeply flawed" and said she had only confessed after being tortured.
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We are devastated that Reyhaneh was denied justice and are deeply saddened that a family has lost their daughter today. The death penalty is a horrific form of punishment that should never be used in Iran, or anywhere else.
The Sunday Times now claims to have obtained a copy of her last will and testament, which was addressed to her mother.
According to the paper, she says that she would have been killed had she not stabbed Sarbandi:
My body would have been thrown in some corner of the city. And after a few days, the police would have taken you to the coroner's office to identify my body and there you would also have learnt that I had been raped as well…The murderer would have never been found since we don't have their wealth and power.
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