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| Revolutionary court judge jugged for pimping... |
| 2002-07-28 |
| An Iranian revolutionary court judge has been sentenced to 10 and a half years in jail for pimping and the illegal detention of a 17-year-old girl, court sources said Sunday. The judge in the Tehran satellite town of Karaj was found guilty of having covered up for a brothel where 17 girls were detained, many of them as young as seven. Seven years old? Is this guy a Pashtun? They said the judge, whom they identified only by his first name Hadi, had confined a 17-year-old who went missing several months ago before being found by her father in a brothel. Hadi was also sentenced to 90 lashes and barred from any post in the judiciary, and will have to return a total of 625,000 dollars in bribes received from the brothel owners. Seventeen others were convicted in the same case and handed lesser sentences, the sources said. What kind of corruption was it that absolute power induces? A welfare official said in June that the Islamic republic now had 300,000 prostitutes and warned their number would increase rapidly if poor living conditions persisted. But they're all very devout... UPDATE: Hoder Derakhshan sez the conservatives have decided to go ahead and legalize prostitution... Finally they found a way to legalize women's prostitution in Iran, using ironic Islamic laws and judiciary's tolerance. If Iran was in a stable and normal economic situation and people could afford their cost by normal jobs, that'd be very reasonable to allow prostitutes to work legally. But at this time, and particularly by these kind of people, I think it's another way to make huge profits and to help building another Mafia around it. (Surprise: I didn't find even a single story on this subject in English!) |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |