The law seems quite screwed up in Iran:
Retrial for girl due to hang for killing rapist
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.
The pop singer and former Miss Canada Nazanin Afshin-Jam learnt of her case and has since become the figurehead of the campaign to have her freed. “The injustice of the story horrified me,” said Ms Afshin-Jam, the runner-up to the 2003 Miss World title who left Iran when she was two. “I couldn’t believe that a victim of attempted rape was being charged as a criminal.”
According to the Iranian daily newspaper Etemaad, Ms Fatehi and her niece were in a park in Karaj, just outside of Tehran, with their boyfriends when they were approached by three men. The boys fled after the men pushed the girls to the floor. Ms Fatehi then drew a knife and stabbed one man in the arm and another in the chest, killing him.
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.
It’s so ironical here. While it’s wrong to kill a man (or a woman of course), the poor girl did so in self defense. The death sentence seems unjustified.
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They have never heard anything of self-defence? Dammed!
by Nafcom (Jan 10, 2007 at 6 AM)Those are some pretty effed up laws, no offense…
I’d opted for a sex change if i had to live there.
Off topic: I can’t see any body’s comments at all dew. Unless I highlight the text. It’s like they commented with invisible ink or something. I don’t think this is a “feature” you created right? =p heh.
by sky (Jan 12, 2007 at 11 AM)edit: Never mind. It seems it just takes some time for the invisible ink to become visible. It takes about 10-15 seconds for me though. Meanswhile, I’ll just use the highlighting text method to view
by sky (Jan 12, 2007 at 12 PM)It’s a strange bug and it’s fine in my computer. Perhaps upgrading to Windows Internet Explorer 7.0 would help.
by Mr. Dew (Jan 18, 2007 at 8 PM)