Posted on 17/01/07
Iranian execution halted after worldwide appeal
Toronto -- An Iranian teenager accused of killing a sexual predator has eluded the hangman's noose after a former Miss Canada, Nazanin Afshin-Jam, launched a worldwide appeal. This month, according to Ms. Afshin-Jam, the court in the new trial found inconsistencies in the testimony of the male witnesses and acknowledged that Nazanin Fatehi, a poor, uneducated ethnic Kurd, was indeed acting in self-defence.
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