Mick Hartley

This is Atefeh Sahaaleh, a sixteen-year-old Kurdish/Iranian girl executed for being raped for 3 years, raped so severely in prison that she couldn't walk.

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She took off her hijab in court and threw her shoes at the judge after realizing she was losing the case, and because of that, the judge insisted on placing the noose around her neck himself.

“Virgin female prisoners should be raped before execution so that they do not go to heaven.”

~ Ayatollah Khomeini

I posted about this last May:

Atefeh was convicted for crimes against chastity after being raped repeatedly by Ali Darabi, an 51-year-old ex-revolutionary guard turned taxi driver. Darabi was a married man with children at the time.

Atefeh had been raped by Darabi over a period of 3 years without her family being aware. While in prison, she was further allegedly tortured and raped by prison guards. She told her grandmother that she could only walk on all fours because of the pain. The judge in her case was Haji Rezai. When Atefah realized that she was losing her case, she removed her hijab, an act seen as a severe contempt of the court, and argued that Ali Darabi should be punished, not her. She even removed her shoes and threw them at the judge. Rezai later sentenced her to death.

According to the BBC, the documents presented to the Supreme Court of Appeal described her as 22 years old, but her birth certificate and death certificate stated that she was 16.

But it's always worth being reminded of Iran's horrendous history of crimes against women.