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A June 06, 2004, file photo shows Iranian Khadijeh Shahla Jahed, the mistress of Iranian football star Nasser Mohammad Khani, during her trial in Tehran
Wednesday, Dec. 01, 2010

Open quoteA victim of a misogynist society ... Shahla Jahed has never had a fair trial in Iran and has always insisted that she is innocent.Close quote

  • KARIM LAHIDJI,
  • president of the Iranian League for Human Rights, speaking out against the Iranian judicial system after the execution of Jahed, the woman found guilty of murdering her lover's wife
Photo: AFP / Getty Images | Source: The Guardian