http://www.petitiononline.com/Nazanin/petition.html
To: The Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan,The
United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights, Louise Arbour,The
Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ayatollah Seyed Ali
Khamenei, and The Head of the Judiciary of IRI Ayatollah Mahmoud
Has
We, the undersigned, are deeply concerned for 18-year-old Nazanin
who faces execution by the Islamic Republic of Iran.
On January 3, 2006, 18-year-old Nazanin was sentenced to death for
murder by court in Iran after she reportedly admitted fatally
stabbing one of three men who attempted to rape her and her
16-year-old niece in a park in Karaj (a suburb of Tehran) in March
2005. She was seventeen at the time. Her sentence is subject to
review by the Court of Appeal, and if upheld, to confirmation by
the Supreme Court.
According to reports in the Iranian newspaper Etemaad, Nazanin
told the court that three men had approached her and her niece,
forced them to the ground and attempted to rape them. Seeking to
defend her niece and herself, Nazanin stabbed one man in the hand
with a knife that she possessed. As the men continued their attack,
she stabbed another of the men in the chest, which eventually
caused his death. She reportedly 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. She was nevertheless sentenced to the maximum punishment
possible under the law, death by hanging.
Urgent action is needed to help save a young life whose only crime
was an attempt to defend herself. Nazanin and many like her are
caught between two undesirable options. On one hand, Iranian Penal
Code severely limits the possibility of using self-defense as a
legitimate defence to aggression. On the other hand, if Nazanin had
allowed the rape to take place, she could still be imprisoned,
flogged or stoned for having sex outside of marriage unless four
male witnesses to the actual rape would testify on her
behalf.
Asswipes of a judiciary.. 
