Portrait of the day: Reyhaneh Jabbari
Reyhaneh Jabbari killed Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi, a former Iranian intelligence officer, in self-defense when he tried to rape her in Iran. In 2007, she was arrested for murdering Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi. In her statement, she said that Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi had tried to rape her and she killed him in self-defense. In 2009, she was sentenced to death by a Tehran court.
Women all around the world had launched campaigns to halt her execution. International human rights organizations had lobbied for her life to be spared. However, the Iranian regime executed her on October 25, 2014, at the Gohardasht Prison.