26-year-old Reyhaneh Jabbari, who was convicted for murdering a man she accused of trying to rape her, was killed by hanging in Iran on Saturday, October 25, 2014 despite a global campaign for her release after seven years in prison. A Tehran court sentenced her to death in 2009 for killing Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi, a former employee of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence who she said tried to sexually abuse her, and Iran’s Supreme Court upheld the verdict despite a legal challenge.
In her final message to her mother, Sholeh Pakravan, recorded on the day she learnt she would be executed, she expressed her belief that she would have been murdered that night if she had not fought back....
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