Iran woman human rights activist sentenced to 148 lashes and 38 years

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What a truly disgusting fascist dictatorship Iran is, the sooner the malignant mullahs are toppled the better.

A prominent Iranian lawyer has been jailed for 38 years and sentenced to 148 lashes after she defended women who removed their headscarves in public. Nasrin Sotoudeh, an internationally renowned human rights lawyer jailed in Iran, was handed maximum sentence for all of her seven convictions.

The 55-year-old represented protesters against the Islamic Republic's mandatory headscarves for women, many of whom filmed themselves taking off the garment and posing it on social media. Sotoudeh, who has represented opposition activists, was arrested last June and charged with spying, spreading propaganda and insulting Iran's supreme leader, her lawyer said.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...jail-Iran.html

[Jack]

Hmmm, yeah. Insulting the Supreme Leader. Sounds like North Korea and our good friends the Saudis.
This is the kind of 'Diversity' we DON'T need in America.

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Hmmm, yeah. Insulting the Supreme Leader. Sounds like North Korea and our good friends the Saudis.
This is the kind of 'Diversity' we DON'T need in America.

Hell will freeze over before our old friend Moonatic would ever criticise Iran.

[Jack]

Hell will freeze over before our old friend Moonatic would ever criticise Iran.

Really? Is that true or are you just making that up? Is he Shia?

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Really? Is that true or are you just making that up? Is he Shia?

Nobody knows, but it's a fact all right. He'll criticise Saudi Arabia and Israel until the cows come home, but will never do same with Iran, Syria, Russia, Hamas and Hezbollah.

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Really? Is that true or are you just making that up? Is he Shia?

Only a wannabe. In reality it is a pimply faced, half finished, very confused Tranny. And pasty white.

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[Jack]

Nobody knows, but it's a fact all right. He'll criticise Saudi Arabia and Israel until the cows come home, but will never do same with Iran, Syria, Russia, Hamas and Hezbollah.

He's a Shia then. Thanks.

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Hmmm, yeah. Insulting the Supreme Leader. Sounds like North Korea and our good friends the Saudis.
This is the kind of 'Diversity' we DON'T need in America.

April 26, 2019

Imprisoned Lawyer’s Husband Rejects Judiciary’s Accusation of “Exaggerating” Her Heavy Sentence

“The authorities…refuse to accept the fact that they have condemned a woman lawyer to suffer the inhuman act of flogging and a long prison sentence because of activities that were entirely peaceful.” –Reza Khandan, husband of Nasrin Sotoudeh

Imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh’s husband, Reza Khandan, has rejected Iranian Judiciary Spokesman Gholam-Hossein Esmaili’s claim that the magnitude of the sentence against her has been exaggerated.

“They are playing games,” Esmaili said at a press conference in Tehran on April 23, referring to the outcry over the harsh punishment against Sotoudeh for her defense of peaceful activists and her opposition to the mandatory hijab.

The Judiciary Spokesman added: “The so-called legal experts are being misleading rather than transparent and honest. The Islamic Penal Code (Article 134) states that in case of multiple sentences only the most severe punishment will be enforced.”

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https://www.iranhumanrights.org/2019...eavy-sentence/

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Man, imagine living in a country like that. Can only think of the horror they'd suffer if they taught their pug a trick or something.

[Jack]

I thought the idea of Lawyers was to advocate for their Clients? Sounds like she is being persecuted ... for doing her job.

April 26, 2019

Imprisoned Lawyer’s Husband Rejects Judiciary’s Accusation of “Exaggerating” Her Heavy Sentence

“The authorities…refuse to accept the fact that they have condemned a woman lawyer to suffer the inhuman act of flogging and a long prison sentence because of activities that were entirely peaceful.” –Reza Khandan, husband of Nasrin Sotoudeh

Imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh’s husband, Reza Khandan, has rejected Iranian Judiciary Spokesman Gholam-Hossein Esmaili’s claim that the magnitude of the sentence against her has been exaggerated.

“They are playing games,” Esmaili said at a press conference in Tehran on April 23, referring to the outcry over the harsh punishment against Sotoudeh for her defense of peaceful activists and her opposition to the mandatory hijab.

The Judiciary Spokesman added: “The so-called legal experts are being misleading rather than transparent and honest. The Islamic Penal Code (Article 134) states that in case of multiple sentences only the most severe punishment will be enforced.”

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https://www.iranhumanrights.org/2019...eavy-sentence/

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Moonatic conspicuous by his absence, no surprise there. Then again most of the board seems far more concerned about whether Trump may have seen someone's nipples than this poor woman's plight.

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I thought the idea of Lawyers was to advocate for their Clients? Sounds like she is being persecuted ... for doing her job.

Iran is a fascist state and cares little for the rule of law.

[Jack]

Iran is a fascist state and cares little for the rule of law.

Pretty amped up over women wearing a scarf on their head. Course, in Saudi Arabia, she probably would have her head cut off.