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TEHRAN, Iran – Iran on Wednesday hanged a former soccer player's mistress — known as a "temporary wife — who was convicted of murdering her love rival in a case that captivated the Iranian public for several years.
Shahla Jahed was hanged at dawn, after spending more than eight years in jail for the slaying of the player's wife, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Jahed had become what is known as a "temporary wife" of former soccer star Nasser Mohammad Khani. She was charged in 2002 with stabbing his wife, Laleh Saharkhizan, to death and convicted of murder in 2004 and again in 2009, after her appeal was denied.
Contracts with "temporary wives" are a legal way for Iranian men to have mistresses outside marriage, with the agreements lasting from between several hours to a few years.
Contracts with "temporary wives" are a legal way for Iranian men to have mistresses outside marriage, with the agreements lasting from between several hours to a few years.
Mohammadkhani was involved in a very public court case in Iran, after his wife was found murdered in her apartment in 2002. His mistress, Shahla Jahed, was convicted of the murder, and was executed in 2010, following the completion of the appeals procedure after Supreme Court judges ruled that her initial conviction (based as it was on a confession she made under duress) was unacceptable.[3]
Originally posted by InvisibleAlbatross
She was executed for committing a murder. I am totally against the death penalty, but if this woman had been put to death by lethal injection in the US for killing a love rival, this thread would not exist.
Originally posted by InvisibleAlbatross
reply to post by redhorse
Many people view the executions of the person who killed their loved one. I don't understand it, but it happens often.
Originally posted by ashwhy
errrm I see your from the USA, unless something has changed your guilty of killing prisoners too
Originally posted by InvisibleAlbatross
reply to post by Xcathdra
The cause of this was the murder. I know you are looking for a way to attack Islam, but Christians do it too. Look at the members of the LDS church that practice polygamy. They too claim that their holy book allows it. Both are wrong, but twisting the words of the holy book happens in all religions.
Originally posted by InvisibleAlbatross
She was executed for committing a murder. I am totally against the death penalty, but if this woman had been put to death by lethal injection in the US for killing a love rival, this thread would not exist.
Originally posted by InvisibleAlbatross
reply to post by Xcathdra
Your addition doesn't work. You make a statement about Iran being blocked from the human rights commission. Do you really think they have been blocked because they allow men to cheat on their wives? Or because they execute prisoners? By this logic, the US is a terrible violator of human rights.
Originally posted by InvisibleAlbatross
reply to post by Xcathdra
After she was executed, her confession was thrown out. Sadly this happens in the US too; many times, prisoners were found innocent after execution. The poster you are replying to is right.edit on 1-12-2010 by InvisibleAlbatross because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by InvisibleAlbatross
reply to post by Xcathdra
It has nothing to do with Islamic law. If this had happened in the US (a woman killing a love rival), depending on the state it occured in, she may well have been executed.