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  • IRAN: JOURNALIST RISKS DEATH PENALTY FOR SATIRE

    02/06/2006 4:42:46 PM PST · by nuconvert · 24 replies · 1,401+ views
    IRAN: JOURNALIST RISKS DEATH PENALTY FOR SATIRE Tehran, 6 Feb. (AKI) - A 19-year-old Iranian journalist, Elham Foroutan, risks the death penalty for a satirical article in which she compares the Islamic revolution in Iran to the AIDS virus. Foroutan, wrote the article for the magazine, Tamaddon Hormozgan, a weekly which is published in Bandar Abbas, in the south of Iran. Foroutan, was arrested together with six editors of the magazine, whose publication has also been suspended. In the piece, Foroutan compares the Islamic revolution to the spread of the AIDS virus, saying that it "arrived in Iran in 1979",...
  • Happy 'Death to America Day' (Free Iran News)

    02/06/2005 5:38:18 AM PST · by Cornpone · 13 replies · 482+ views
    Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.com ^ | 6 Feb 2005 | Dennis Roddy
    Should Iman Foroutan go back to Iran one day, he better not make it one day soon. He is in big trouble. He has spoiled Death to America Day. At least Foroutan believes that is what he has ruined. Our story begins with an invitation that quietly arrived in some homes and offices around the nation's capital last month from what is called the "Iranian Interests Section," a diplomatic fiction created inside the Pakistani Embassy to pretend that the United States and Iran have nothing official to do with each other while their diplomats lunch with ours.