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Reyhaneh Jabbari Malayeris execution was announced by various sources, including the public relations department of Tehrans Public and Revolutionary Prosecutors Office (25 October 2014), Fars News (25 October 2014), her lawyer, Mr. Khoramshahi, and her mother in interviews (BBC, 25 October 2014).
Additional information and details related to the case have been taken from Ms. Jabbaris diaries (The Save Reyhaneh Jabbari facebook page), Ms. Jabbaris [first] lawyers notes (Mr. Mostafais blog and Facebook), Boroumand Foundations interview with Ms., Jabbari’s mother, an interview with Mr. Tardast, the judge presiding over the case (Ghanoon Media News Agency (23 April 2014), and various other media and other sources, including Etemad (23 November 2009), ISNA (23 June 2014), Mehr News Agency (26 April 2014) and Fars News Agency (28 October 2014).
Ms. Jabbari was born in Tehran in 1988. She was the eldest child of a five-member family. She was in her third year of studying computer software, while working part-time in a firm of interior decorators. According to her relatives, Ms. Jabbari was artistically talented, especially in the sphere of painting and interior decorating. Another one of her talents was writing.
In the spring of 2007, when she was 19 years old, she met Mr. Morteza Abolali Sarbandi, a 47-year-old doctor and former Intelligence Ministry employee, at an ice cream parlor. This acquaintance culminated in the stabbing of Dr. Sarbandi with a knife during an altercation between the two at his private apartment on Mirdamad Avenue (Tehran), on 7 July 2007. Based on available reports, Mr. Sarbandi died as a result of a severe hemorrhage.
According to Ms. Jabbari, she had visited the apartment on that day, under the impression that it was a workplace. She went there for the purpose of designing the interior decoration of a surgery. She realized, however, that Mr Sarbandi intended to rape her; hence wounded him by stabbing him in the shoulder with a knife. She fled the scene after calling for an ambulance (Ms. Jabbaris diaries – Part Two).
International Protests over Ms. Jabbaris Execution
A few years after the announcement of the final verdict in the case of Ms. Jabbari, the case was highlighted in the media, attracting the attention of numerous international human rights forums and organizations. Amnesty International and the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, cited violation of due process, described her trial process as "unjust", and made strenuous efforts to halt her execution. In the wake of Ms. Jabbaris execution, Amnesty International issued a statement, condemning the execution, describing it as “another bloody stain on Irans human rights record.” (Amnesty International – in English – and BBC Persian 25 October 2014) US and German authorities also expressed regret at Ms. Jabbaris execution and voiced concern regarding the fairness of her trial. (Deutsche Welle, 25 October 2014)
Arrest and detention
Ms. Jabbari was arrested (after she was tracked via her cell phone), by Branch 10 of the City of Tehrans Investigation Bureau, in the early hours of 8 July 2007. She was first taken to Abbasabad [Avenue] Police Station, Branch 104, and the following morning to Branch 10 of the Shapur Avenue Investigation Bureau.
Upon searching Ms. Jabbaris home, officers found a knife, a bloodied manteau, and a headscarf. (Investigating magistrate, Mr. Shamlu, Mehr news agency, 26 April 2014)
According to her lawyer and mother, Ms. Jabbari was in solitary confinement for about two months (at the Shapur Avenue Investigation Bureau, for the first 10 days, and Evins Ward 209, for the rest), without being allowed to see a lawyer or family members. From around October 2007 to 2011, when she was transferred to Shahr-e Rey Prison, Ms. Jabbari was kept in various wards in Evin Prison. In December 2007, Ms. Jabbari was taken to the Shapur Avenue Investigation Bureau, for 10 days, before being transferred back to Evin Prison.
During that period, she was subjected to various kinds of psychological torture (humiliation, insult, obscene language, and threats; her family members were arrested ...), as well as physical torture (flogging, slapping, kicking ...). (Diaries of Reyhaneh Jabbari, Parts 1,2,3,4,7, and CNN in English, 25 October 2014).
