Posted on 09/19/2014 8:37:27 AM PDT by nuconvert
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On September 9, as reported by the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran (ICHRI), seven young Iranians went on trial. Their supposed crime? Producing a dance video of the Pharrell Williams’s pop hit “Happy” and uploading it to YouTube.
You might think Iran’s rulers would be pleased at expressions of felicity by their citizens. In Tehran, however, cheerful enthusiasm outside a narrow religious context is illegal.
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...(they) were detained on May 19 of this year and held for two days at the Vozara Complex of the Tehran Morality Police, until they posted bail of $10,000-$16,600 each.
"While in the Vozara lockup, the “Happy” captives were beaten and threatened with murder if they did not cooperate with police, "
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...on June 25, Ghoncheh Ghavami, who holds dual Iranian-British citizenship, was taken to the increasingly-sinister Vozara Complex. With other women, she was arrested for protesting their exclusion from the stadium at an Iran-Italy volleyball match. The women were released but their personal effects were impounded.
On June 30, Ghavami returned to the Vozara Complex to retrieve her belongings but was rearrested and transferred to solitary confinement in Tehran’s Evin House of Detention,
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
It`s not arbitrary...it`s ISLAM!
It`s not isolated...it`s ISLAM!
It`s not unprecedented...it` ISLAM!
It`s not civilization...it`s ISLAM! They want it, they defend it . I hope they ALL kill each other. Evil demons!
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