Iran to hang teenage girl attacked by rapists

Iran Focus ^ | January 07, 2006

[jmc1969]

An Iranian court has sentenced a teenage rape victim to death by hanging after she weepingly confessed that she had unintentionally killed a man who had tried to rape both her and her niece.

The state-run daily Etemaad reported on Saturday that 18-year-old Nazanin confessed to stabbing one of three men who had attacked the pair along with their boyfriends while they were spending some time in a park west of the Iranian capital in March 2005.

She described how the three men pushed her and her 16-year-old niece Somayeh onto the ground and tried to rape them, and said that she took out a knife from her pocket and stabbed one of the men in the hand.

As the girls tried to escape, the men once again attacked them, and at this point, Nazanin said, she stabbed one of the men in the chest. The teenage girl, however, broke down in tears in court as she explained that she had no intention of killing the man but was merely defending herself and her younger niece from rape, the report said.

The court, however, issued on Tuesday a sentence for Nazanin to be hanged to death.

Last week, a court in the city of Rasht, northern Iran, sentenced Delara Darabi to death by hanging charged with murder when she was 17 years old. Darabi has denied the charges.

In August 2004, Iran’s Islamic penal system sentenced a 16-year-old girl, Atefeh Rajabi, to death after a sham trial, in which she was accused of committing “acts incompatible with chastity”.

The teenage victim had no access to a lawyer at any stage and efforts by her family to retain one were to no avail. She was eventually hanged in public in the northern town of Neka.

[BlessedBeGod]

What a joke of both a country and a religion.

[Texas_shutterbug]

NOW exists for the individual woman - usually white and well educated - to get ahead in THIS country. And for credibility, they scream a lot about issues that affect the middle class and poor women.

However, you can see righ through them because they don't give a crap about women in other countries.

It's all about me, me, me.

[One_American]

The Muslim male is truly the epitome of a subcultural savage. They have no responsibility and no honor. Is it any wonder the Muslim world has not progressed and continues to live hundreds of years in the past.