Friday, May 19, 2006
Save Nazanin18-year old Iranian girl Nazanin Mahabad Fatehi, has been sentenced to death by hanging. Nazanin's "crime" was killing a man who ambushed and tried to rape her and her neice. Please take a few moments to read about her case and what you can do to stop the execution and save Nazanin's life.
According to the Iranian daily Etemaad, then 17-year-old Nazanin and her niece had been spending some time in a park west of Tehran with their boyfriends, when three men started harassing them.
The girls` boyfriends fled from the scene, leaving them helpless behind. The men pushed Nazanin and her niece down on the ground and tried to rape them, and to protect herself, she took out a knife from her pocket and stabbed one of the men in the hand.
The girls tried to escape, but the men overtook them, and at this point, Nazanin stabbed one of the other men in the chest, which eventually killed him. According to the newspaper, she broke down in tears when she told the court: "I wanted to defend myself and my niece. I did not want to kill that boy. At the heat of the moment I did not know what to do because no one came to our help." Nevertheless, the court sentenced her to death by hanging. [via] 
Read this site to see what you can do to get the word out. And you can also sign this petition.
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