Iran: Unchaste 16-year-old Girl Executed?

Draconian Islamic laws may have claimed another victim. There are reports that a 16-year-old girl, Ateqeh Rajabi, in Neka in the northern Iranian province of Mazandaran, has been executed for "acts incompatible with chastity." Perhaps some Iranian clerics should be executed for "acts incompatible with humanity."

Amnesty International explains:

Amnesty International is alarmed that this execution was carried out despite reports that Ateqeh Rajabi was not believed to be mentally competent, and that she reportedly did not have access to a lawyer at any stage. The execution of Ateqeh Rajabi is the tenth execution of a child offender in Iran recorded by Amnesty International since 1990. Amnesty International has urged Iran's judicial authorities to halt further executions of child offenders - people who were under 18 years old at the time of the offence. This is to bring Iran's law and practice in line with requirements of international human rights law. ... The co-defendant of Ateqeh Rajabi, an unnamed man, was reportedly sentenced to 100 lashes. He was released after this sentence was carried out.

This like this just make me sick. There is no indication of what exactly she did, but since there was a man involved I’m guess that there was also sex involved — and if we are talking about a mentally ill 16-year-old girl, then there is a decent chance that she was raped by any humane standard of law. That, then, would mean that the rape (or sexual abuse or sexual assault) victim was executed while the real criminal was simply lashed.

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