{"id":540,"date":"2014-04-20T17:19:26","date_gmt":"2014-04-20T17:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/?p=540"},"modified":"2020-02-07T19:00:43","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T19:00:43","slug":"iran-rape-victim-bound-for-gallows-unless-she-changes-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/?p=540","title":{"rendered":"Iran rape victim bound for gallows unless she changes story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Telegraph -19 Apr 2014\u00a0 By Damien McElroy, Foreign Affairs Correspondent &#8211; Death row accusations that an Iranian intelligent agent was a rapist could condemn his victim to hangman&#8217;s noose<br \/>\nAn Iranian rape victim has been offered the option of avoiding the gallows if she complies with terms for forgiveness set by the son of the predator she murdered.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi, an Iranian intelligence agent, was killed by Reyhaneh Jabbari after she was lured to flat to undertake interior design work but sexually abused.<br \/>\nJabbari pleaded self defence but was sentenced to hang for Sarbandi&#8217;s death. The interior designer&#8217;s lawyer has warned the sentence could be carried out within weeks.<br \/>\nIran&#8217;s Islamic based legal system gives the family of victims the right to grant clemency in capital punishment sentences but Sarbandi&#8217;s son, Jalal has demanded that Jabbari must change her version of events if she hopes to live.<br \/>\n&#8220;Only when her true intentions are exposed and she tells the truth about her accomplice and what really went down will we be prepared to grant mercy,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegraph -19 Apr 2014\u00a0 By Damien McElroy, Foreign Affairs Correspondent &#8211; Death row accusations that an Iranian intelligent agent was a rapist could condemn his victim to hangman&#8217;s noose<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[115],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-women-kids","tag-reyhaneh-jabbari"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1577,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/1577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}