Iran to hang teenage girl attacked by rapists
Sat. 7 Jan 2006
Iran Focus
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.
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Excuse me? Let me check...ah yes....my country didn't went on a crusade for...hmm around 700 years....
Seriously, wha'S your point. no one is denying that the crusades were...well....distasteful....but thése things happen right now. There is a big difference between a gap in space and a gap in time.
Its my view that these countries have only just started. In the time line of things they act very similar to our countries time ago. When we did some truely horrific things. However as our countries have grown and started to wise up, these countries have only just taken power for themselfs. There views are very similar to our along time ago...
Its my belief that these peoples views are still like the middle ages, and with time will grow to band these actions. I mean this in no disrespectful way.
its just gross and injust, i dont think it has anything to do with those past conquests, its just their culture and sadly for the girls, not much can be done about that since its not our country. its depressing really that people get killed for defending themselfs.
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But it's not like they didn't have the chance to. They had the same time...and were way more sophisticated than europe in teh early middle ages. Question is: Do the Western Nations want to give them the time they need to evolve (if that's actually possible, who am I to say that our morals are more evolved) and by that subscribe to let these kind of things happen or do they want to do something aboot it.
Hey don't be so freakin defenssive. I'm pretty sure he wasn't trying "disrespect" you. And no there isn't that much of a diference between these acts against women in Iran today compared to other acts of religious intolerence in the past. 700 years, I understand that that may be a long time relatibely speaking but it really isn't that long at all. Also, I don't think he was trying flip this around an poke fun at your country. And the Crusades weren't just....um..."distasteful."
They were certifiably ****ed up.
Back on topic. That is horrible that these unfortunate women can do nothing to defend themselves in their own land. It's when thiings like this happen that makes me despise and hate some of the cultural practices and perceptions of some Middle Eastern countries.
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I am not defensive...I am saying if the crusades would happen today I wouldn't like them either....the thing is it is in the past, while this happens right now. And although there is no real difference we humans are limited to this flow of time...therefore we can't change the crusades, but what does it change that once there were atrocities in countries that nowadays are very outspoken against them? You need to understand that I don't mind that he brought the crusades in, but it's just the standard aeguement people would bring up when oen talks aboot cruel things in muslim countries. And just to be sure, it does not have anything to do with the matter at hand.
That's because a lot of people don't knows that the Crusades were a defensive war, triggered by the Muslims' unprovoked attacks on the Christian territories of Palestine, Syria, and Egypt, North Africa, and modern Turkey.
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The point was that the middle east has been a playground of war for ages now. They have not had the time to become as liberal in there views as us. All the countries around the world have relaxed there views on things. While the middle east (still behind us) is learning through mistakes, And people are standing here judging them like "all musilms are evil" (extreme but ya get the point). I think this perception that they are on level causes alot discustion to be misunderstood.
you want my opinion on this? i am no fan of theories but this is a ploy made by the media, especially this site. its obvious to see that this has site has been made to put hatred on the iranians. There was a news similar to this before, a boy getting lashed 75 times then beaten to death in iran. It was all over the news, but it was later proven to be false. I am not kidding. If this story is indeed true, it is an act of injustice. But i am pretty sure its not the full picture.
thats pretty much the only way to do it. horrific but becoming more common
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using the crusades and the reconquista, to blame the western world or christianity/catholicism gets old pretty fast, and there are far better ways.
I do not condone the actions taken by the Iranian government, however we (the west) can not force our values upon them. It is not because we consider their actions immoral or whatever that they are.
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1. Jumped in the air doing an impressive backflip.
2. Thrown a knife at the rope, cutting it and saving the girl.
3. Wistled for my horse.
4. Jumped on the horse, grabbed the girl and gallop out of there while avoiding townspeople and the rocks they are throwing.
5. Then I would become an outlaw that moves from city to city doing un-outlawish stuff.....yup
and all of this would be put into a xena episode, because i rock
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