Commutation of Fatehi's Death Sentence
According to the Iranian Newspaper Hamshahri and by order of the Supreme Court of the Islamic Republic of Iran the death sentence of Nazanin was overturned subject to payment of dieh (blood money) to the family of the alleged rapist killed. However she was placed in solitary confinement for nearly a month. Her re-trial was set for the end of August 2006.
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