Girl Sentenced To Death For Killing Her Rapist

Posted on January 9, 2007 — The Monkey
Filed Under Religion, Politics, Injustice |

This case is truly shocking and sickening:

Nazanin Fatehi was sentenced to death a year ago, on 3 January 2006, after admitting having stabbed to death one of three men who tried to rape her and a 16-year-old relative. She was 17 at the time.

If she had allowed the men to rape her and her niece, the girls would have been subjected to 100 lashes under Iranian laws on chastity. If they had been married at the time they were raped they would likely have been found guilty of adultery and sentenced to death by stoning.

I don’t even know what to say about it, every single thing about it is just wrong on every level.

Thankfully a former Miss Canada Nazanin Afshin-Jam is leading a campaign to have her freed and has succeeded in getting her retried on Wednesday.

Under Iranian law, the value of a man’s life is twice as great as that of a woman. “A man who had killed a woman could not get the death penalty unless the victim’s family paid him a female person’s worth of dieh,” Ms Azmdeh said. “This way, the victim’s life plus the amount of dieh, would be equal to a full person, ie, a man’s life.”

The death penalty is never the right answer (Yes, not even for Saddam) and in this girl’s case, it was clearly self-defense.

Sadly, I imagine this sort of thing goes on all the time.

Full article: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2132568.ece






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