Posted on 05/17/2007 12:32:16 PM PDT by Cyrus the Great
Norwegian-Iranian Mamand Mamandy had a brutal meeting with police after drinking two beers while on holiday in Iran.
"It's getting better now, but I am still in great pain," Mamandy, 35, told Aftenposten.no. "My brother is a doctor, and treated me after the whipping. I was in great pain and could not sleep."
Mamandy, a Kurd, explained that he was visiting his mother in Baneh, Iran in April when he was arrested by police.
"We were on an outing with family and friends, six or seven in the evening, and were having a barbecue and enjoying ourselves. Altogether I drank two beers. The police happened to drive by," Mamandy said.
He said that he was immediately arrested and taken to the police station where he was sentenced to 130 lashes. This sentence, for beer drinking, was carried out publicly according to news agency Iran Focus.
"I received 130 lashes on the back of my body. Police whipped me," Mamandy said. He came to Norway as an asylum seeker in 1999. He lives in Drammen with his wife and they are awaiting Norwegian citizenship.
Mamandy traveled home to Norway shortly after his punishment and has been since treated by his family doctor here.
It’s not self-discipline if somebody has to beat you into it.
Oh, and it’s an open secret that alcohol is easy to get in Iran. At the weddings, they pass flasks around under the table.
And he went back?
What an idiot.
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*yawn* Didn’t you get the memo? What islamonazis do is fine, and totally excusable. Why? Because they aren’t Christians.
I’ll be shocked if this stuff doesn’t end up happening here in America. We will welcome the muzzies with open arms and they will turn our systems into their own.
“I went to Iran and all got are these painful scars”
I wonder what kind of beer he drank?
Hope it was good.
Five or six more beers would have helped you sleep.
Should have stuck to that asylum thing. Send mom a postcard next time.
” and the police happened to drive by”
Proof again that drinking and driving don’t mix.
Funny that the Ranians complain about Gitmo.
Enjoying themselves? That probably made the cops as mad as his drinking the beer.
What a bizarre place.
I remember, at age fifteen, saying that over and over again to my father as I was repeatedly stumbling, falling down and puking my guts out. I am not sure if I was being entirely honest.
If two beers gets you beaten, I dare say I would be no more than a bloody froth.
“I wonder what kind of beer he drank?
Hope it was good.’
Just think if he went through all that for 2 Budweisers, that would really stink.
My word, 130 lashes should have killed him!
I guess I won’t be renting that beach house at Bandar Abbas this summer. Damn!
When I was in high school I lived in Cairo and could go to hotel bars and drink as long as I could prove that I was not an Egyptian citizen.
Our choices were Guinness, Stella and Budweiser.
Bud was never among our selections.
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