The Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance...

The Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran said that the clerical regime's henchmen executed a 16-year-old girl in the town of Neka, northern Iran. Ateqeh Sahaleh was hanged in public on Simetry Street off Rah Ahan Street at the city center.
The sentence was issued by the head of Neka's Justice Department and subsequently upheld by the mullahs' Supreme Court and carried out with the approval of Judiciary Chief Mahmoud Shahroudi.
In her summary trial, the teenage victim did not have any lawyer and efforts by her family to recruit a lawyer was to no avail.
Ateqeh personally defended herself. She told the religious judge, Haji Rezaii, that he should punish the main perpetrators of moral corruption not the victims. Her courageous defense angered the judge and she was sentenced to death while her punishment was not execution.
The judge personally pursued Ateqeh's death sentence, beyond all normal procedures and finally gained the approval of the mullahs' Supreme Court. After her execution Rezai said her punishment was not execution but he had her executed for her "sharp tongue". (Sources: Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, 19/08/2004 ) esecpub metimp tipdon tipmin dicpol