This is very sad and appalling as a woman named "Reyhaneh Jabbari" 26-years old, was executed on Saturday Morning following the authorization granted by the Iranian President over the death sentence passed against her by an Iranian court.
Since 2009, she has been on trail for the alleged murder of one physician and a former employee of the Ministry of Intelligence, Dr. Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi, who at the time of his death was 47-years old, and was reported to have tried raping Ms Jabbari, and on the act of trying to get herself freed from the man, she stabbed the doctor with a knife, and that led to his death.
This execution has attracted the attention of several human right groups across the world condemning the death sentence, saying that Ms Jabbari was innocent of the crime, and the judgment was not a fair one, as it is only a miscarriage of justice.
Sequel to the reports gathered concerning the murder trial case of Ms Jabari, who was at the time of this incident 19, had earlier met the said Dr.Morteza in 2007 in an ice-cream parlor right there in Tehran, where he overheard her saying that she's an interior designer, and afterwards she agreed on an appointment with him to pay a visit to his office for possible assessment of renovations, and it's quite unclear as to what happened after this time, but according to local websites, they claimed to have spotted the two of them severally before his murder occurred in July 7, 2007.
According to the statement given by a police interrogator to the semiofficial news agency Mehr in August, she had a knife in her bag which bought 2-days earlier to protect herself from the doctor, and it was this knife she used in stabbing the victim in the back while he was having prayer session on his rug, and as he tried running down the staircase shouting 'Thief! Thief!! and then collapsed and that led to his death.
But the United Nations Office for human rights said there was evidence that Ms Jabbari may have been convicted falsely on the basis of being subjected to very coerce confession with threat of torture.
While before hanging her, the Amnesty International said in a statement said that the investigation had been "deeply flawed" and that Ms. Jabbari's claims "do not appear to have even been properly investigate."
It was said that she was hanged under Iran's "eye-for-an-eye" law as the victim's family had refused to forgive her, saying that both the media and the public had already termed Dr. Morteza a rapist.
That is to say Iran ranks second after China in execution cases with over 600 persons having being executed since 2013.
She should have been granted a fair hearing, this judgment seem so rash and arbitrary if I may; it is quite sad that she had to go in this manner, it's only time that would tell if she was actually guilty or innocent, since she's already executed.
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