Nazanin, who was 17 at the time, had been out with her niece and their boyfriends on a road west of Tehran when two men started harassing them and then tried to rape them after the boyfriends had run away.
"I committed murder to defend myself and my niece, I did not mean to kill him. I did not know what to do because nobody came to help us," the paper quoted her as saying during her trial.
This follows the 2004 judicial murder of 16-year-old Atefeh Rajabi for "acts incompatible with chastity".
The teenage victim had no access to a lawyer at any stage and efforts by her family to retain one were to no avail. Atefeh personally defended herself and told the religious judge that he should punish those who force women into adultery, not the victims. She was eventually hanged in public in the northern town of Neka.
Moral equivalence is a favourite pastime of our post-modern society, but I still wonder how the left - and particularly self-styled feminists - can turn a blind eye to the abuse of their sisters. The sick irony of Socialist Workers marching in step with Islamicists has been addressed at length elsewhere, but I remain perplexed at the relative silence of feminists on the sufferings of their sisters abroad and... at home. Or does one only qualify for liberation if one is Western, Christian and white?
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