Posted on 12/14/2020 2:24:53 PM PST by xomething
Iran handed a nine-year jail sentence to a British-Iranian anthropologist for studying child marriage and female genital mutilation and ordered him to pay a fine of over $700,000 in cash, the semiofficial Tasnim news agency reported Sunday.
Kameel Ahmady was sentenced by Iran’s Revolutionary Court on charges of cooperation with institutions seeking to topple Iran’s Islamic government, promoting homosexuality, cooperating with hostile media, visiting Israel as a reporter for the BBC, and engaging in “subversive” research.
Ahmady was detained in August 2019 on suspicion of being affiliated with institutes that have ties with foreign intelligence services but was released on bail three months later.
The New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran said Ahmady had been a target for his work “on politically sensitive topics including child marriage, LGBTQ issues and female genital mutilation.”
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Say what you will about Iran, but they do have their act together in certain areas...
That’s an appreciable chunk of change.
Any British citizen stupid enough to go to Iran knowing the political situation there deserves what they get.
The f@g getting what he deserves for putting from the rough
He is lucky that he is not already hanging from a tall crane. I thought that is what they typically did with homos.
They should add a charge for blazing stupidity for his visiting Iran with his citizenship and background.
“Any British citizen”
He wasn’t your typical British citizen. He likely did not look like David Niven or Benny Hill.
They get thrown off of roof tops too.
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