Iran to hang teenage girl attacked by rapists

[Ebowed]

Iran to hang teenage girl attacked by rapists

Tehran, Iran, Jan. 07 – 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.

Nazanin, who was 17 years old at the time of the incident, said that after the three men started to throw stones at them, the two girls’ boyfriends quickly escaped on their motorbikes leaving the pair helpless.

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. Atefeh personally defended herself and told the religious judge that he should punish those who force women into adultery, not the victims. She was eventually hanged in public in the northern town of Neka.

http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=5184

[Smash255]

reading that just made me sick to my stomach

[Gabu]

Let's see...

If you get raped, you get executed.
If you don't get raped, you get executed.

I'd say that the women in Iran are pretty freaking screwed.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

They also give the death penalty for being gay. Jake probably wants that in this country.

[afleitch]

Thats Islamic 'justice' for you. This particular case disgusts me as too did the recent cases of homosexuals being hanged. Though does anyone remember the case of the burning building where young women were left to die because they were not appropriately covered with the correct clothing (as they had taken some of it off due to the fire and smoke)

[Democratic Hawk]

Thats Islamic 'justice' for you

Digusting

Dave

[ilikeverin]

Thats Islamic 'justice' for you.

Oh yes, this is 'Islamic' justice, isn't it.  Every single Muslim wants this to happen

[WalterMitty]

im sure opebo will drop by this thread and say something completely sickening.

[afleitch]

Thats Islamic 'justice' for you.

Oh yes, this is 'Islamic' justice, isn't it.  Every single Muslim wants this to happen

You do realise that comment was made in reference to the Islamic regime in Iran right? The same Iran that imposes it's own version of Sharia law? So yes. That is Islamic justice Iranian style. Does 'every single Muslim want it to happen? Of course not. I would also dislike so called 'Christian' justice too if a nation decided to base their laws soley on the Bible.

[John Dibble]

A rather sad state of affairs in Iran.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Disgusting but not suprising.
As far as Sharia goes... look... Sharia is one of the most disorganised systems of Religious law you will find *anywhere*; beyond basic principles pretty much everything (in whatever different country) will be some local custom given a seal of legitimacy by some cleric or leader a while ago. "Sharia" isn't really based around the Koran, something that it's advocates tend to gloss over.

[David S]

Let's see...

If you get raped, you get executed.
If you don't get raped, you get executed.

I'd say that the women in Iran are pretty freaking screwed.

Sounds a bit like the Salem witch trials. They throw you in the lake and if you float you're a witch so they kill you. If you sink you're not a witch and they don't kill you... but the water does.

[they don't love you like i love you]

Let's see...

If you get raped, you get executed.
If you don't get raped, you get executed.

I'd say that the women in Iran are pretty freaking screwed.

Sounds a bit like the Salem witch trials. They throw you in the lake and if you float you're a witch so they kill you. If you sink you're not a witch and they don't kill you... but the water does.

That was the Middle Ages, not Salem.

Anyway, we can expect this in Iraq in a few years at the rate things are going. The government Bush installed is a bunch of pro-Iran Islamic extremists.

[Gabu]

I'm surprised nobody has said anything about what I just realized was an accidental double entendre.

I'd say that the women in Iran are pretty freaking screwed.

[DanielX]

barbarians!

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Though does anyone remember the case of the burning building where young women were left to die because they were not appropriately covered with the correct clothing (as they had taken some of it off due to the fire and smoke)

Yes, I do remember this. It happened in Saudi Arabia - a country the Bushes support.

[Cubby]

Thats Islamic 'justice' for you. This particular case disgusts me as too did the recent cases of homosexuals being hanged. Though does anyone remember the case of the burning building where young women were left to die because they were not appropriately covered with the correct clothing (as they had taken some of it off due to the fire and smoke)

Well at least someone besides me remembers the first incident you mentioned. That horror wasn't covered at all in the American Press

[A18]

She was a rape victim or simply attacked by rapists?

Anyway, yeah, Iran is a ****hole.

[Michael Z]

Further proof that Iran is run by lunatics.

[opebo]

im sure opebo will drop by this thread and say something completely sickening.

What is there to say?  Typical theocracy.

[MasterJedi]

She was a rape victim or simply attacked by rapists?

Anyway, yeah, Iran is a ****hole.

^^^^^