Tags: Criminal.
Nazanin (Mahabad) Fatehi (Persian: نازنین فاتحی born 1987) is an Iranian woman who was sentenced to death for stabbing a man who allegedly tried to rape her and her 15 year old niece events occurring when she herself was a 17 year old. After more than 2 years in jail Fatehi was cleared of intentional murder ordered her to pay diyeh (blood money for the death) and released on bail (January 2007).