An Iranian court has sentenced a man to one year in prison after police arrested him last year for collecting signatures in a Tehran park in support of women's rights, his lawyer said Sunday.
Amir Yaghoub-Ali, a twenty-two year-old student, was found guilty on May 25 of endangering national security and spreading propaganda.
Yaghoub-Ali's signature campaign was in support of the larger One Million Signatures Campaign, protesting Iran's interpretation of Sharia law under which women must obtain a male guardian's permission to work or travel, are prohibited from serving as judges, and have their court testimony given only half the value of a man's.
Yaghoub-Ali's lawyers plan to appeal.
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Isnt it interesting that the removal of this type of situations is what the american government used as an excuse after they didnt find any WMD in Iraq?
I assume that this probably has been going on for a long time, and yet the US government doesnt do anything about it, yet it was perfectly fine to effect regeime change in Iraq for the mere reason that the regeime there was bad (seeing as that was the only excuse they could think of when they couldn't find WMD)?
/sarcasm
Iran: a legendary theocracy, America's next potential victim, and, unfortunately, a very real window into America's possible future.
Please...just make the fundies go away (enters fetal position, rocking back forth as WWIII begins in the distance).
Amir Yaghoub-Ali deserves a pat on the back, not a conviction. I really hope that he can get out of this one.
By the way, Iranian Court of Idiocy, the only "security" that Yaghoub-Ali has endangered is the security that you morons feel at knowing that your women are subjugated to your pathetic, misogynistic fantasies.
If this isn't an affront to human rights, than I don't know what is.
Yeah, I know Iran is technically a "democracy". But electing leaders is not the same thing as respecting the basic civil liberties we so often take for granted in the West.
I'd love to take the Iranian and Saudi Arabia governments and blast them all into orbit. I'm all for tolerance of other cultures, but this kind of stuff is ridiculous. Eat shit and die, Iranian gov. (and Saudi Arabian gov., 'cause you're the worst of the bunch).
I'm reading this just seconds after reading that bullshit "wahhhhhh christians being persecuted" stuff, and it just... argh... how fucking spoiled and self-centred do you have to be that you're being persecuted when a few people make fun of you, despite the fact that you're the MAJORITY, while there are women in the middle east being beaten, raped, imprisoned and killed for LEAVING THEIR HOME without an escort? I normally don't let shit on the internet bother me, but the fact that people in the western world can be so selfish, so spoiled... it makes my heart sink. It really does.
I hate this species sometimes.
Amir Yaghoub-Ali deserves a round of applause, not a sentence /sigh
Iran used to be good at one point in time, back in 70s. Then the "Islamic Peoples Party" got into power and everything went to pot.
"Amir Yaghoub-Ali, a twenty-two year-old student, was found guilty on May 25 of endangering national security and spreading propaganda."
Give me a fucking break. That is endangering your national security and "spreading propaganda"? Please.
"Yaghoub-Ali's lawyers plan to appeal."
Good luck with that.
The Iranian government constantly shuts down the Campaign's website, but they just move servers elsewhere. You'd think the government has something it wants to hide... hey, misogynists can say what they want, but if women were truly happy being wives and feckin' mothers and little else, there would have never been a feminist movement anywhere. Deep down, I think patriarchs know this, and it scares the shit out of them. Their entire existence is based on the control and subjugation of another, and if that control is removed, they lose all power.
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