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Floggings ordered for 55 arrested at 'depraved' party
Police arrested 55 people attending a "depraved" party, hauled them into court and saw sentences of flogging imposed, the government-run "Iran" paper reported Monday. Aged between 16 and 26, they were charged with morals offences, including encouraging "corruption and illegal relationships between unmarried people," the daily said. I'll bet some of those perverts were necking! Some of them even with girls! They were surprised by police while dancing at a birthday party in posh north Tehran, Iran said. Following the four-hour trial, an undisclosed number of the accused were sentenced to flogging. Yep. That'll calm the country down after last week's riots. "And what'd you get for your birthday?" "Flogged. Wanna see my scars?" Special police units equipped with new four-wheel-drive vehicles have greatly reinforced their presence in numerous northern and eastern quarters of Tehran, Iran's capital of 10 million people. As well as stopping and checking the occupants of cars, they have also stepped up raids on parties in north Tehran and well-to-do residential areas, often rounding up youngsters. Iranian officials regularly crack down on so-called "depraved" parties where Iran's strict Islamic laws have been flouted with alcohol, drugs and mixed-sex dancing. That mixed sex dancing'll just clobber a respectable theocracy. Terrible when that happens. Just terrible... Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-07-15 |
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