Iranian Woman Faces Execution - She Killed a Man in Self-Defense (friend case women year life)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/05/international/middleeast/05IRAN.html?ex=1065931200&en=b4ce7eb7e47dc69c&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
Iranian Woman Faces Execution in Official's Death
By NAZILA FATHI
Published: October 5, 2003
EHRAN, Oct. 4 - An Iranian woman accused of killing a police chief in
southern Iran who she said tried to **** her has been convicted and is
to be executed, the Shargh newspaper reported Saturday.
The woman, Afsaneh Noroozi, 32, who has been in jail since 1997, said
during her trial that she stabbed the chief of police intelligence on
the island of Kish in self-defense when he tried to **** her. The
police chief, whose name has not been made public, was a friend of Ms.
Noroozi's family, and she was at his house as a guest.
Her lawyer cited in her defense an article in Iran's Islamic penal
code that allows citizens to take proportionate action to defend
"life, honor, chastity, property, or freedom."
The newspaper reported that the final ruling, confirmed by a
high-level court in August, was delivered to Ms. Noroozi in prison in
the southern city of Bandar Abbas last week. Sentences are usually
carried out a few days after the ruling is delivered.
Human rights workers and advocates for women's rights have condemned
the ruling, saying that it is a violation of the right of a woman to
defend her honor.
Three women who are members of Parliament recently sent a letter to
the chief of the judiciary, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi,
asking him to send the case to a different judge.
The only person who can grant clemency now is Iran's supreme religious
leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Amnesty International has recorded 83 executions this year in Iran.
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