Woman Hanged In Iran Talks Abuse In Prison, Left Chilling Message To Family
An Iranian woman who was still hanged on Saturday despite international pleas to give her clemency had left her family with a chilling message months before the fateful day of her execution.
Reyhaneh Jabbari, 26, was executed on Saturday despite international pleas to reverse the decision on Saturday morning in Tehran's Evin prison. She had spent a total of give years on the death row, after being sent there for stabbing a man back in 2007. She said the man tried to rape her and she stabbed him out of self-defence. This side of the story was never properly investigated, Amnesty International claims.
Jabbari confessed to the act of stabbing Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi when he tried to sexually assault her. However, she claimed that it was another man who finished the act for her and killed Sarbandi. Up to her death, Jabbari refused to say who the man is. Because of the lack in proper investigation, the efforts of international organisations such as the Amnesty International, the United Nations, and the European Union in asking for the woman's release became futile. Sarbandi's family firmly believes that the nuder was premeditated.
Huffington Post now learns that back in April, Jabbari had left a heart wrenching message to her family, asking them to donate her organs so they do not go to waste. She also said that her death is not the end. The letter demonstrated her anger and disappointment with the inspectors of her case, and the abuse she experienced in prison. She does like her mother mourning for her.
"My kind mother, dear Sholeh, the one more dear to me than my life, I don't want to rot under the soil. I don't want my eye or my young heart to turn into dust. Beg so that it is arranged that as soon as I am hanged my heart, kidney, eye, bones and anything that can be transplanted be taken away from my body and given to someone who needs them as a gift. I don't want the recipient know my name, buy me a bouquet, or even pray for me, " the letter reads.
"I am telling you from the bottom of my heart that I don't want to have a grave for you to come and mourn there and suffer. I don't want you to wear black clothing for me. Do your best to forget my difficult days. Give me to the wind to take away," Jabbari wrote further.
Jabbari is only one of the many women being executed in Iran yearly. In 2013 alone, 28 women were executed.