Iran Law Demands Death for Woman

You women readers, imagine you are assaulted in a park while out walking with a young female relative. The three men obviously will rape you but you surprise one of them with a knife, staving off the attack.

The same day, it is you who are arrested, charged with murder. Soon, you are convicted and sentenced to death. Never is there a doubt about the motives of the three men. But the law is the law, after all.

On Jan. 3, 2006, 18-year-old Nazanin Mahabad Fatehi was sentenced to death for murder by court in Iran after she stabbed one of three men who attempted to rape her and her 16-year-old niece in a park in Karaj (a suburb of Tehran) in March 2005. She was seventeen at the time. Iran is signatory to international treaties which forbid them to execute any one under the age of 18; however they continue to do so.
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