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| Pörn site owners deserve to die: Iran prosecutor |
| 2009-04-22 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Dozens of arrested Iranian operators of pörnographic and anti-Islamic websites deserve to face the death penalty, a special prosecutor said in a newspaper report on Tuesday. Tehran's deputy prosecutor Reza Jafari said 50 Iranians had been arrested by a special unit within the Revolutionary Guards and were under investigation for running such websites and promoting pröstitution, Vatan Emrouz reported. He said the term "corrupt on earth" suited "a person who manages many immoral, anti-religious and anti-revolutionary sites, and corruption on earth is legally punishable by death" under Iranian law. "The accused in these cases face several charges, and so we will call for the maximum punishment prescribed by the law," he said, without specifying how many could face the death penalty or when they would go on trial. Jafari, the prosecutor of a special tribunal against cyber crimes, said 90 websites had been shut down since March and that half of the 50 people arrested had paid a hefty bail to be released. Alleged confessions Since then the special Guards unit has on a regular basis kept the public updated with the details of the operation by publishing or broadcasting what it says are the confessions of the site managers. The websites contained pörnographic material including "incèst, sèx with children and animals, hömosexuality and erötic stories" as well as "insults to religious sanctities," Jafari said. The suspects were all rounded up in Iran, which is marking the 30th anniversary of becoming an Islamic state, although some of them were based outside in other countries. In March, Iran's Revolutionary Guards militia said it had launched a crackdown on several groups who had set up anti-Islamic and pörnographic sites on the Internet. The groups involved were based in foreign countries, particularly in the United States, and had published "articles against the Islamic revolution and religious values, and also released pörnographic material," it said. The websites were not named but the Revolutionary Guards accused the Internet search engine Google and rival firms of "offering financial support" to the unidentified groups. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 What's with all the umlauts and accents? Are we talking about Swedish "pörnography" and French "incèst, sèx"? |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2009-04-22 13:38 |