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Student ‘arrested in Iran over Facebook comments’, family say (said Iran is ‘too Islamic’)
Manchester Evening News ^ | Apr 02, 2014 06:00 | Dan Thompson

Posted on 04/02/2014 8:38:31 AM PDT by Olog-hai

A student who went to visit family in Iran has been locked up for five months over comments she made to friends on Facebook, her family say.

Roya Saberi Negad Nobakht, from Stockport, was arrested as she stepped off a plane in the provincial city of Shiraz and accused of being a spy, husband Daryoush Taghipoor told the M.E.N.

Daryoush said his 47-year-old wife has been detained at Evin, an infamous prison in Iranian capital Tehran, on suspicion of plotting to commit crimes against security and insulting Islam.

He claimed her arrest was over comments she made on an internet chat forum and to friends on Facebook about the Iranian government being too controlling and “too Islamic”. …

(Excerpt) Read more at manchestereveningnews.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; Syria; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: daryoushtaghipoo; facebook; iran; israel; lebanon; rop; royanobakht; russia; stockport; syria; tooislamic; unitedkingdom; waronterror

1 posted on 04/02/2014 8:38:31 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

UN run internet anyone???


2 posted on 04/02/2014 8:40:15 AM PDT by taterjay
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To: taterjay

BULLSEYE!

let em make thier own stinking internet

SHARIANET...yea let em have their own islamic kitty litter box


3 posted on 04/02/2014 8:47:06 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: Olog-hai

“The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.”

Obama in a speech to the UN Sept 2012


4 posted on 04/02/2014 8:48:03 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Tennessee Nana
All in the context of Benghazi(gate) too. Talk about no shame.
5 posted on 04/02/2014 8:53:38 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
No brains at all, some of them. Just bits of gray fluff blown into their heads by mistake.

-- A. A. Milne

6 posted on 04/02/2014 8:57:58 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Olog-hai

They proved her point.


7 posted on 04/02/2014 9:17:44 AM PDT by DannyTN ( .)
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To: DannyTN

“We are not too Islamic, and we’ll kill anyone who says we are!”


8 posted on 04/02/2014 9:18:22 AM PDT by DannyTN ( .)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks Olog-hai.


9 posted on 04/02/2014 10:45:01 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Obama is now making Jimmy Carter look like Attila the Hun. /focus/news/3138768/posts)
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