Not Religious Enough? Prepare for Humiliation
Iran cracks down on Western influence
Ebrahim Noroozi/Fars News Agency
From the New York Times article by Neil MacFarquhar, Crackdown on Dissent is Under Way In Iran:
Young men wearing T-shirts deemed too tight or haircuts seen as too Western have been paraded bleeding through Tehran’s streets by uniformed police officers who force them to suck on plastic jerrycans, a toilet item Iranians use to wash their bottoms.
The country’s police chief boasted that 150,000 people”…” were detained in the annual spring sweep against any clothing considered not Islamic. More than 30 women’s rights advocates were arrested in one day in March, according to Human Rights Watch, five of whom have since been sentenced to prison terms of up to four years.
They were charged with endangering national security for organizing an Internet campaign to collect more than a million signatures supporting the removal of all laws that discriminate against women.
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