I posted about this last week. Nazanin Mahabad Fatehi is an 18-year-old Iranian woman who killed a man who was attempting to rape her and her 16-year-old niece. From the last post:
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.
Her ordeal is not over. She will now be retried and could end up spending many years in prison—when she should be given a fuckking medal.
The link has a list of things you can do to hopefully help this young woman. Please go there, international pressure can still help her.
Here's an online petition you can sign. I was number 151,314. And I called the Iran interest office in the Pakistan Embassy:
2209 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20007
Tel: (202) 965-4990
Fax: (202) 965-1073
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