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Nazanin (Mahabad) Fatehi (Persian: نازنین فاتحی) is a 19-year-old Iranian girl who was sentenced to death for stabbing a man who she claimed tried to rape her and her 15 year old niece (Nazanin was 17 at the time). Former Miss World Canada Nazanin Afshin-Jam started an international campaign to save Nazanin and led a petition signed by over 350,000 people worldwide. After more than two years in jail Nazanin was eventually released on bail on January 31, 2007.
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On January 3, 2006, Nazanin was sentenced to death for murder by a criminal court of the Islamic Republic of Iran. According to Nazanin, as reported in the Iranian daily Etemaad then 17-year-old Nazanin and her 15 year old niece (Sumayeh) were in a park in Karaj, west of Tehran when three men started harassing them. The men pushed Nazanin and her niece down on the ground and tried to rape them, and to protect herself, s...
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