Jabbari’s family went to see Reyhaneh’s grave on Wednesday despite freezing cold and drizzling rain to pray, light a candle and lay flowers at her grave site. The family had announced earlier that due to the mullahs’ regime banning any ceremony to be held at the cemetery, they are going to hold a birthday ceremony in her honor in their house.

Reyhaneh Jabbari, 26, was executed on Oct. 25 in Gohardasht prison and her only crime was to defend herself against an assault by an infamous intelligence ministry agent. She spent seven and half years in prison, part of it in solitary before she was hanged.

A small, but full of climate of love and affection was held in Jabbari’s house to remember Reyhaneh on her 27th birthday where a number of close family and her class mates participated. The Reyhan Aroma had filled the air. It was the scent of life and perseverance. Her mother writes; when we first got to the cemetery, we saw a number of intelligence agents around the area where she is buried. They were there apparently not to protect, but to prevent any ceremony from taking place at the grave site, or may be god forbid try to protect us from wondering and stray ghosts in the cemetery.

Mrs. Sholeh says; ’since Reyhaneh is no longer here, I had to blow the candles and her father and I sliced the cake which had her picture on it.’  Then referring to the mullahs’ hateful agents, she adds ’don’t try to find who the baker was, it is nobody from around our house, this will remain a secret, so you couldn’t harm the man or harass him for baking a cake Reyhaneh’s picture on it.
 

Mrs. Sholeh Pakravan had asked all those freedom loving people and those who have been affected by the death of Reyhaneh to participate at her birthday by devoting a song, a picture, a poem or writing of sort and post it on to the internet so her memory would live on.