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An 18-year-old girl to be hanged in Iran |
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Saturday, 07 January 2006 |
 NCRI - An 18-year-old girl identified by her first name, Nazanin, was
sentenced to death by mullahs' judiciary according to Etemad state-run
daily. She was charged for killing a man who tried to rape her when she
was only 17.
She told the clerical court that she killed the man in self defense
when she and her niece were attacked by two men. "I committed murder to
defend myself and my niece, I did not mean to kill him. I did not know
what to do."
Another teenage girl was sentenced to death by a court in the city of
Rasht (northern Iran) last week for a murder she denied to have
committed, according to state-run Aftab daily. Delara Darabi was
accused of killing a women when she was 17.
International human rights bodies including Amnesty International and
the United Nations General Assembly have condemned high number of
executions in Iran and in particular under-aged individuals.
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