In her final will, 26-year-old Iranian woman Reyhaneh Jabbari, who was executed recently for killing her alleged rapist in 2007, told her family that she is at peace.

 

Jabbari recorded what was an originally voice message in April – the day she learned she would be hanged, according to the in-Diaspora opposition political group National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) who translated and circulated her final will.

 

"Dear Sholeh, don’t cry for what you are hearing," she addressed her mother Sholeh Pakravan in calm voice as she explained that she  “gave in” to her death.

 

“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, who was arrested at 19, asked her mother to donate her organs “and anything that can be transplanted” to someone in need as a “gift.”

 

The message also included Jabbari’s description to what had happened in court where she “shed no tears” and “did not beg” since she trusted the law and the judges to later be disappointed by their verdict.

 

Jabbari was given the death penalty by a court in Tehran in 2009 for killing Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi, a former employee of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence, despite her claims that she has stabbed him once in self-defense and that another man present in the room actually killed him.

 

“The world allowed me to live for 19 years. That ominous night it was I that should have been killed. My body would have been thrown in some corner of the city, and after a few days, the police would have taken you to the coroner’s office to identify my body and there you would also learn that I had been raped as well. 

 

“The murderer would have never been found since we don’t have their wealth and their power. Then you would have continued your life suffering and ashamed, and a few years later you would have died of this suffering and that would have been that.”

 

The Iranian authorities went ahead with the execution of Jabbari despite an international outcry that has been demanding her release – garnering a petition of more than 242,000 signatures. Sarbandi’s family refused to pardon Jabbari or accept blood money, according to court documents.

 

Jabbari then ended her message with one last wish.

 

“I wanted to embrace you until I die. I love you,” she said to her mother, who was only granted one hour for her last meeting with her daughter before she was hanged. — Al-Arabiya