it was reported that at the beginning of January 2006 Iran’s Supreme Court rejected...

it was reported that at the beginning of January 2006 Iran’s Supreme Court rejected the appeal of 19-year-old Delara Darabi, who was sentenced to death by a court in the city of Rasht for a murder committed when she was 17. Delara Darabi initially confessed to the murder, but subsequently retracted her confession. She stated that she had admitted responsibility for the murder at the request of her 19-year old co-accused, to help him escape execution, because he mistakenly believed that she could not be sentenced to death as she was under 18 at the time.