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assault on her person. She has also alleged being coerced to confess to actions under severeduress.“Ms. Jabbari’s case raises serious due process concerns, particularly with regard to herinterrogation and the reluctance of the court to take into account all relevant circumstantialevidence into its judgment,” the Special Rapporteur said, stressing that her conviction for premeditatedmurder was allegedly based on confessions made under duress possibly amounting totorture... “If her allegations are true, Ms. Jabbari may have been doubly victimized; first by herattacker, and then by the judicial system, which is supposed to protect victims of intended andactual sexual and physical assault,” the expert stressed. “Sexual violence, often directed againstwomen, must always be fought in all of its forms.”Mr. Shaheed regretted the spike in executions this year in Iran and renewed his call to theGovernment to immediately halt them. Over 170 persons including at least two women havebeen executed since the beginning of 2014 and a large number of prisoners on death row riskimminent execution.“The imposition of the death penalty plainly goes against the current international trend toencourage a moratorium on, and abolition of the death penalty. We urge the authorities to jointhis world trend by establishing a moratorium on execution with a view of abolishing the deathpenalty,” the expert stressed.Excerpts of Reyhaneh’s will written on April 1, 2014: “Because in the court of God I will chargethe inspectors, I will charge inspector Shamlou, I will charge judge, and the judges of country’sSupreme Court that beat me up when I was awake and did not refrain from harassing me. In thecourt of the creator I will charge Dr. Farvandi, I will charge Qassem Shabani and all those thatout of ignorance or with their lies wronged me and trampled on my rights and didn’t pay heed tothe fact that sometimes what appears as reality is different from it. Dear soft-hearted Sholeh (hermother’s name), in the other world it is you and me who are the accusers and others who are theaccused. Let’s see what God wants. I wanted to embrace you until I die. I love you.”Link to Reyhaneh’s will address to her mother from prison: http://women.ncr-iran.org/newsevents/news/515-young-woman-on-death-row-leaves-will-to-mother-from-prisonLink to Urgent Call to save the life of Reyhaneh Jabbari:https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/11562-help-save-reyhaneh-jabbariPrisonPrisons were the other area imposing pressure on women. After the raid on women ward inVaramin Prison the problem appears even worse. On April 28th a large number of femaleprisoners in Qarchak Varamin prison (central Iran) were attacked with batons, electrical shockershttp://women.ncr-iran.org/ Facebook / NCRI Women's Committee Twitter/ NCRIWomen'sCommittee