Iran to hang teenage girl who fought back against rapists

This is pretty horrible stuff. A teenage girl in Iran has been sentenced to death by hanging after she admitted that she accidentally killed a man who was trying to rape her and her niece.
18 year-old Nazanin–who was 17 at the time of the incident–said that she, her niece and their two boyfriends were in a park when they were attacked.
When the three assailants started to throw rocks at the group, the girls’ boyfriends ran away on their motorcycles, leaving Nazanin and her 16 year-old niece Somayeh. Nice guys.

According to reports in the Iranian newspaper, E’temaad, Nazanin told the court that three men had approached her and her niece, forced them to the ground and tried to rape them. Seeking to defend her niece and herself, Nazanin stabbed one man in the hand with a knife that she possessed and then, when the men continued to pursue them, stabbed another of the men in the chest.

Despite Nazanin’s story of self defense, she was given a death sentence.