Wouldn’t you think that after hearing about this:
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.
That the NOW gang would be up in arms demanding we invade.
So this is the religion of peace huh?? And check out the fact that their boyfriends took off on scooters leaving them high and dry.? Just incredible how backwards society in Iran is.
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True, it is horrible and that’s why I highlighted it. One of my best friends is Iranian who came over before the revolution, the things he tells me about Iran in those days makes me shake my head on how far backwards that country has come.
You’d have to ask the boyfriends. I’d guess that they were too worried about getting something chopped off, for being in the park with the girls in the first place, to come forward and testify. You see, when you casually refer to someone ‘spending some time in a park’ in Iran, it’s easy for people to not realise that the girls were actually taking a big risk. They could have been killed by their *own* families just for that. It’s horrible, but it’s the native culture and they *knew* that. Probably why she’s not getting a whole lot of sympathy.