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- Turkey: Pianist Sentenced To Ten Months In Prison For “insulting Islam” On Twitter
From Today's Zaman: An İstanbul court on Friday sentenced Turkish pianist Fazıl Say to 10 months in prison on charges of insulting Islamic religious values in comments he made on Twitter, after a re-trial ordered by an upper court. The İstanbul...
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Newsmax: Iranian Woman to Face Death by Stoning or Hanging TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Authorities in Iran said Sunday they are again moving ahead with plans to execute a woman sentenced to death by stoning on an adultery conviction in a case that sparked...
- But At Least They've Provisionally Suspended The Stoning. . .
Breitbart: Iran 'stoning woman' to be lashed over photo: son Sep 4 01:08 PM US/Eastern Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, has also been sentenced to 99 lashes for a photo published of her without...
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New York Daily News Saudi court punishes group of men and women for mingling at a party with lashings, prison time In Saudi Arabia, fighting for your right to party could get you beaten and thrown in jail. A group of four men and 11 women were convicted...
- Blogger Iraní Todavía En Prisión
From A Western Heart:Mojtaba SamieNejad, 25 year old blogger and student, was first arrested on November 1, 2004 for reporting the arrests of three other bloggers. He was held in custody for almost three months. Following his temporary release on January...
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Iran: (another) prominent human rights campaigner, sentenced to jail
After Shiva Nazad Azari's 6 yr- prison sentence and Hossein Derakhsan aka Hoder's possible death penalty, now Emad Baghi has also been sentenced for "engaging in propaganda against the Islamic republic".
A prominent Iranian rights campaigner has been sentenced to six years in jail after he recorded an interview for the BBC's Persian language TV channel.Emad Baghi was convicted of engaging in propaganda against the Islamic system, a statement on his website said.The court charges referred to his BBC interview with Iran's leading reformist cleric, the late Grand Ayatollah Hoseyn Ali Montazeri.Mr Baghi, 49, remains free, pending an appeal hearing.The interview was broadcast after the death of Ayatollah Montazeri in December 2009. His funeral sparked a series of anti-government demonstrations across Iran.Mr Baghi was arrested days later, then freed on bail in June.In a separate case, he was sentenced in July to one year in prison and banned from political activities for five years, after being convicted of endangering national security in relation to his work defending prisoners' rights. An appeal court upheld the sentence on Tuesday.....He has spent four-and-a-half years in prison over the past decade, and suffers from serious heart and kidney ailments.
Photo from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty.
Background:
"Democracy and Human Rights have no place in Islamic theology".
Cross-posted from T&P.
Cross-posted from T&P.
- Turkey: Pianist Sentenced To Ten Months In Prison For “insulting Islam” On Twitter
From Today's Zaman: An İstanbul court on Friday sentenced Turkish pianist Fazıl Say to 10 months in prison on charges of insulting Islamic religious values in comments he made on Twitter, after a re-trial ordered by an upper court. The İstanbul...
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Newsmax: Iranian Woman to Face Death by Stoning or Hanging TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Authorities in Iran said Sunday they are again moving ahead with plans to execute a woman sentenced to death by stoning on an adultery conviction in a case that sparked...
- But At Least They've Provisionally Suspended The Stoning. . .
Breitbart: Iran 'stoning woman' to be lashed over photo: son Sep 4 01:08 PM US/Eastern Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, has also been sentenced to 99 lashes for a photo published of her without...
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New York Daily News Saudi court punishes group of men and women for mingling at a party with lashings, prison time In Saudi Arabia, fighting for your right to party could get you beaten and thrown in jail. A group of four men and 11 women were convicted...
- Blogger Iraní Todavía En Prisión
From A Western Heart:Mojtaba SamieNejad, 25 year old blogger and student, was first arrested on November 1, 2004 for reporting the arrests of three other bloggers. He was held in custody for almost three months. Following his temporary release on January...