In February 2021, the lawyer for Zahra Ismaili told the media she had died of a heart attack moments before her scheduled hanging — yet Iranian authorities went ahead and hanged her body to satisfy the victim's family. She had been convicted of murdering her husband. Her lawyer, Omid Moradi, said she collapsed while watching 16 other prisoners executed, and that the death certificate listed 'heart failure' as the cause of death.
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