I saw the program last night. The BBC doesn't reproduce the horrendous images of the results of the lashings.
In terms of the number of people executed by the state in 2004, Iran is estimated to be second only to China.[...]
In the year of Atefah's death, at least 159 people were executed in accordance with the Islamic law of the country, based on the Sharia code.
Since the revolution, Sharia law has been Iran's highest legal authority.
Alongside murder and drug smuggling, sex outside marriage is also a capital crime.
Being stopped or arrested by the moral police is a fact of life for many Iranian teenagers.
Previously arrested for attending a party and being alone in a car with a boy, Atefah received her first sentence for "crimes against chastity" when she was just 13.
Although the exact nature of the crime is unknown, she spent a short time in prison and received 100 lashes.
And 40% of British Muslims want Sharia law enacted in Britain.
Surprisingly, the BBC even report this.
However, the age of sexual consent for girls under Sharia law is nine, and furthermore, rape is very hard to prove in an Iranian court.
"Men's word is accepted much more clearly and much more easily than women," according to Iranian lawyer and exile Mohammad Hoshi.
"They can say: 'You know she encouraged me' or 'She didn't wear proper dress'."
The old, "it's her fault" defense.
And the left remains virtualy silent on Islam's abuses.
Is the BBC starting to wake up to the danger?
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