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Iran Focus
 Tehran, Iran,
Oct. 26 - Iran’s State
Supreme Court upheld the death sentence against a 35-year-old woman, the Iran daily
reported on Wednesday.
The woman, identified only by her first name Shahla, was accused of killing
Leila Saharkhizan, the wife of Iran’s
football star Nasser Mohammad-Khani in Tehran in October 2002.
According to the prosecutors, Shahla befriended Mohammad-Khani and the
footballer took her as his second wife. Iran’s Islamic legal system
allows polygamy. The prosecutors said Shahla was so jealous of
Mohammad-Khani’s other wife that she eventually killed her. Shahla denied
the accusation and proclaimed her innocence throughout the trial.
A panel of five judges in the SSC ruled against Shahla, upholding a
sentence which had already been seen to by a smaller panel in the court
earlier this month.
She faces
imminent execution.
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