Reyhaneh Jabbari, 27, was hanged to death in the wee hours of yesterday despite international appeals, by Iran after its Supreme Court had cleared the lower court's punishment of death.
An Interior Designer by profession, she was hired by Murtaza Abdul Ali Sarbandi, a former Intelligence Agent, to spruce up his office. Sometime in the course of getting through with the contract, he'd tried to rape her and acting in self defence, she'd stabbed him to death as per her statement in court in Jul '07. The defence had, however, insisted upon the fact that the knife had entered from behind, thereby demolishing the theory of self defence and she has been in jail since '09.
The victim's family could have saved her life by accepting blood money but they insisted on their legal rights under the Islamic principle of an 'eye for an eye' probably because she'd accused him to be a rapist in a much publicised media coverage!
Was the prosecution flawed as the international human agencies including the Amnesty International have been crying hoarse? Or was it a clear open and shut case of a premeditated murder? Doubts will linger as the incident has taken place in Iran where over 250 people have lost their lives on the gallows on various charges, thus far, in 2014!
RIP Reyhaneh Jabbari!
Tailpiece.
Is it the steep price one has to pay for being in a closed society?
An Interior Designer by profession, she was hired by Murtaza Abdul Ali Sarbandi, a former Intelligence Agent, to spruce up his office. Sometime in the course of getting through with the contract, he'd tried to rape her and acting in self defence, she'd stabbed him to death as per her statement in court in Jul '07. The defence had, however, insisted upon the fact that the knife had entered from behind, thereby demolishing the theory of self defence and she has been in jail since '09.
The victim's family could have saved her life by accepting blood money but they insisted on their legal rights under the Islamic principle of an 'eye for an eye' probably because she'd accused him to be a rapist in a much publicised media coverage!
Was the prosecution flawed as the international human agencies including the Amnesty International have been crying hoarse? Or was it a clear open and shut case of a premeditated murder? Doubts will linger as the incident has taken place in Iran where over 250 people have lost their lives on the gallows on various charges, thus far, in 2014!
RIP Reyhaneh Jabbari!
Tailpiece.
Is it the steep price one has to pay for being in a closed society?
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