Beauty fights for Iranian teen facing death

The only good thing about this situation is that she has been granted this second trial. I guess we will find out later today if the courts will listen to international opinion on human rights cases (which apparently they do in Iran) and give her clemency.

This case just goes to show you how truly different our cultures are. In any country in North America or Europe, if a woman were to protect herself and/or someone else who is vulnerable from rape, she would not be arrested and most definitely not be sentenced to death. Death? And everyone is crying over Saddam Hussein's sentence. He killed thousands. This poor girl was protecting herself and her younger neice from three men who were raping them.

The Muslim world want us to allow them to adopt Sharia law outside of their country (this was an issue here in Ontario in the last year or so)? I think not if this is an example of how their laws work.

"There is no place for this in any country or any planet," she said of a woman being killed for killing her rapist. "This is a human-rights case."


She says it very well.

Does everyone know that, under Sharia Law (Islamic) that a rape victim must have four witnesses to the incident to charge rape? Yep. And they better be male witnesses, since only male witnesses can testify in these cases - and because according to the Qur'an itself, a woman's testimony is only half that of a man's (2:282). This is today in the modern world!

Did you know that a girl can be executed at age 9 in Iran for crimes? However, a boy must be 16. Nine years old?

It just makes me shake my head.

I agree with every comment on this board

Having been to that part of the world this is only one thing of many which are committed everyday and noone ever finds out about them. The laws are backward from ours no doubt about it

are things a lot better in the US? if we look at prison sentences and convictions for men who murder women and women who kill men in self-defense, we might wonder. things aren't great here either. women tend to get much harsher sentences, even when the cause is self-defense.

@ kurtrat:
are things a lot better in the US? if we look at prison sentences and convictions for men who murder women and women who kill men in self-defense, we might wonder. things aren't great here either. women tend to get much harsher sentences, even when the cause is self-defense.

Can you please tell me exactly when a woman was given a death sentence for comitting a murder in self-defense? In Canada, women rarely get charged let alone sentenced for self-defense killings.