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Rape Victim Sentenced to Death

An Iranian court has sentenced a teenage rape victim to death by hanging after she weepingly confessed that she had unintentionally killed a man who had tried to rape both her and her niece.

Nazanin, who was 17 years old at the time of the incident, said that after the three men started to throw stones at them, the two girls’ boyfriends quickly escaped on their motorbikes leaving the pair helpless.

She described how the three men pushed her and her 16-year-old niece Somayeh onto the ground and tried to rape them, and said that she took out a knife from her pocket and stabbed one of the men in the hand.

As the girls tried to escape, the men once again attacked them, and at this point, Nazanin said, she stabbed one of the men in the chest. The teenage girl, however, broke down in tears in court as she explained that she had no intention of killing the man but was merely defending herself and her younger niece from rape, the report said.

The court, however, issued on Tuesday a sentence for Nazanin to be hanged to death.

The uproar over this brings tears to my eyes.

Oh wait... Amnesty Int'l weighs in:

Iran: Amnesty International calls for end to death penalty for child offenders. Amnesty International is calling on the Iranian authorities to take immediate steps to end the use of the death penalty for child offenders. Two new cases have been reported in which child offenders – persons under 18 at the time of the crime – have been sentenced to death by Iranian courts, in breach of Iran’s obligations under international human rights law.

Nevermind...

Power Grab

When will the US media "speak truth to power" for REAL? Show the cartoons!

Shhhh...

IslamoFacsist may be listening/watching...


And then, they might riot...


or kill...
Catholic Priest Shot to Death in Turkey

ANKARA, Turkey -- A teenage boy shot and killed the Italian Roman Catholic priest of a church in the Black Sea port city of Trabzon on Sunday, shouting "God is great" as he escaped, according to police and witnesses.

Understand us! America: Look at your foreign policy and how it has corrupted and destroyed the nations and peoples of the world. Look at how your support of Israel has brought this upon you. Understand us by submitting.

Viva la Freedom of Speech: The "Offending" Cartoons

Some US troops question Woodruff coverage

"The point that is currently being made (is that) that press folks are more important than mere military folks," a senior military officer told UPI Tuesday.

"It's just a bit frustrating to see something so dramatized that happens every day to some 20-year-old American -- or worse to 10, 30-year-old Iraqi soldiers or cops alongside us. Some of the stories don't even mention the Iraqi casualties in this attack, as if they're meaningless," wrote the officer in Baqubah.

That leaves the uncomfortable question about how much the media, or the American public, cares about the injured who are less well known, but in just as dire straits.

"Or the American public" (bullocks!)-- we didn't have a say, they blasted the news with Woodruff reports all through the weekend and into this week. This is clearly a case of "we're more concerned with the well-being of our own and because we own the media mechanism, we're going to focus on our own interests."