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[Eric-GCA]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4295111.stm

A teenage girl and two young men in Iran have been sentenced to lashes for having sex.
The court dismissed the girl's claim that we was raped. It said she had sex of her own free will, the official Iran Daily newspaper reported.

The girl was sentenced to 100 lashes because her accusations of rape and kidnap could have landed her partners a death penalty, the Tehran judge said.

Sex outside marriage is illegal in Iran and capital punishment can be imposed.

The young men in the case were sentenced to 30 and 40 lashes each.

Rights violations

The Iran paper quotes the girl, who has not been named, as confessing: "I trusted one of these young men, whom I got to know by phone, and went to his place.

"But because he betrayed me, I filed the case against him and his friend out of revenge."

International concerns continue to be raised about women's rights in Iran.

In December the UN General Assembly voted to censure Iran for human rights violations, including discrimination against women and girls.

Tehran rejected the criticism as propaganda.

Under Iranian law, girls over the age of nine and boys over 16 face the death penalty for crimes such as rape and murder, while capital punishment can be imposed in certain cases of illegal sexual relationships.

Hmm, I dunno, I think sex should be punished more in the West.

 

[Boogie]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4295111.stm

Hmm, I dunno, I think sex should be punished more in the West.

Goddamn you're a dumbass.

 

[Fragamemnon]

Hmm, I dunno, I think sex should be punished more in the West.

I'm sure radical mullah James Dobson would agree.

 

[Cubsfan23]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4295111.stm

Hmm, I dunno, I think sex should be punished more in the West.

You're right, you don't know.

 

[fallout]

Ooo ... sounds kinky!

EDIT: I'm gonna retract that, just read the actual article. Eric, you're certainly a dumbass.

 

[Luscious LeftFoot]

100 lashes is an obscene amount, can't say I really feel sorry for her though, considering her lie could of resulted in the death of the other two.

Didn't a boy recently die from a similar amount of lashings?

 

[Megafoo Chavez]

that is a lot of lashings. I'm glad i live behind the arsenal of thousands of nukes.

 

[Boogie]

100 lashes is an obscene amount, can't say I really feel sorry for her though, considering her lie could of resulted in the death of the other two.

I could almost agree, but how do we know that she was lying about being raped? Because an Iranian religious court said so? :megarolleyes

 

[Luscious LeftFoot]

I could almost agree, but how do we know that she was lying about being raped? Because an Iranian religious court said so? :megarolleyes

It wouldn't be surprising if the courts were siding with the guys, but it says she filed the case against them because one of the boys betrayed her and wanted revenge.

 

[WedgeX]

It wouldn't be surprising if the courts were siding with the guys, but it says she filed the case against them because one of the boys betrayed her and wanted revenge.

...by raping her...

 

[Monk]

Yet in the states we have this:

http://forums.gaming-age.com/showthread.php?t=37163


IS THERE NO MIDDLE GROUND?

 

[NLB2]

100 lashes for the girl sounds about right. Why were the guys lashed? I call bullshit.

 

[radioheadrule83]

Who are we to judge their culture....

nah fuck it. It's wrong. And trying to get people tried and killed in some sort of revenge plot by saying they raped you? Thats like walking into a lash-o-matic machine and asking to be lashed into the next life surely?

 

[Zaptruder]

...by raping her...

No, she was betrayed, and she wanted revenge.

 

[Mandark]

Cent: I'm gonna just consider any social/political topic you post to be trolling, and ban you for it.

If the time comes when you believe yourself reformed enough to post again, email EviLore about repealing this policy.