Iran Jails Eight Youths Facebook Posts

[Lovelife090994]

Tehran (AFP) - A revolutionary court in Iran has jailed eight young people for a total of 127 years for anti-regime posts on Facebook, media reported on Monday.

The eight, whose names were not given, were jailed for "acting against national security, anti-regime propaganda and insulting religious values and Iranian leaders", the reports said, without elaborating.

Those convicted came from Tehran, Yazd, Shiraz, Abadan and Kerman, and were each imprisoned for between 11 and 21 years.

They can appeal against the sentences.

Access to social networks, including Twitter and Facebook, is routinely filtered by Iranian authorities, as are other websites considered un-Islamic or detrimental to the regime.

President Hassan Rouhani, a self-declared moderate, has promised greater tolerance on social, cultural and media issues -- a vow that helped him defeat conservatives in last year's election.

But his fledgling push has been opposed by traditionalists and ultra-conservatives who hold sway in the establishment and key institutions including the judiciary.

In May, eight people were sentenced to jail terms ranging from seven to 20 years for crimes including anti-regime propaganda posted on Facebook, the opposition website Kaleme reported.


http://news.yahoo.com/iran-jails-eight-youths-facebook-posts-091910769.html

This is a little bit extreme if you ask me.

[Gamma Male]

Yeah, this sucks, but it isn't exactly news. This and much more goes on in "friendly" nations all the time, the only reason the media is paying so much attention to Iran in particular is because they're "unfriendly", eg their economic interests aren't aligned with our own.

[Kurgg]

^^^this

If this would have happened in Saudi Arabia, Yahoo would not have even made a news article about it.

[Waleedbt]

Yeah, this sucks, but it isn't exactly news. This and much more goes on in "friendly" nations all the time, the only reason the media is paying so much attention to Iran in particular is because they're "unfriendly", eg their economic interests aren't aligned with our own.

Unfriendy?
Can you like not bring things out of no where?

[Gamma Male]

Unfriendy?
Can you like not bring things out of no where?

What? Since when does the US not consider Iran to be unfriendly?

[Harry Smith]

Yeah because the US doesn't care what you post online cough NSA cough. I think this shows why we need to bomb Iran

[Gamma Male]

I think this shows why we need to bomb Iran

...

You want to enter into a war with Iran?

[Waleedbt]

Im Iranian.
So i got kind of offended, its not like i ever lived there or born there, im just saying, they are not an unfriendly country as you call it.
I cant lie, that leader who jailed them is someone who is hated by all iranians though.


Quoted the wrong , edited.

Yeah because the US doesn't care what you post online cough NSA cough. I think this shows why we need to bomb Iran

Lol no one can bomb Iran, Iran probably has so much power to cause a WWIII.
Im Iranian, please respect others when talking about their countries like that.

Merged double post. -Cygnus David

[Vlerchan]

Iran probably has so much power to cause a WWIII.
It doesn't.

they are not an unfriendly country as you call it.
Gamma Male was referring to their releationship with the West.

It'll be changing soon though: Iran has the gas and oil that'll replace that from Russia.

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I think this shows why we need to bomb Iran.
And then Iranians can be free like us (and the Iraqis) too c:

[phuckphace]

until we nuke every Muslim in existence and pave the Middle East in green glass for Uncle Ben (Netanyahu) we will never know peace *neocon rubs hands and snickers*

[Waleedbt]

until we nuke every Muslim in existence and pave the Middle East in green glass for Uncle Ben (Netanyahu) we will never know peace *neocon rubs hands and snickers*

Come and "nuke" me then.
Such an open minded person i feel sorry for you.
Have you actually been to the middle east? Im assuming not, go there and youll know what peace is.

[Waleedbt]

Where is a mod ? This thread is taking a bad turn.

[phuckphace]

Come and "nuke" me then.
Such an open minded person i feel sorry for you.
Have you actually been to the middle east? Im assuming not, go there and youll know what peace is.

that's not what I think, that's the neoconservatives. my post was meant to mock them, because they harbor an irrational and paranoid hatred of Muslims and Islam.

[Waleedbt]

that's not what I think, that's the neoconservatives. my post was meant to mock them, because they harbor an irrational and paranoid hatred of Muslims and Islam.

Then i truly apologise.

[phuckphace]

Then i truly apologise.

no problem. really though, I thought the "Uncle Ben" part would give it away :P

[Waleedbt]

no problem. really though, I thought the "Uncle Ben" part would give it away :P

Have no idea who that guy really is :confused: maybe thats why.

[Kurgg]

Have no idea who that guy really is :confused: maybe thats why.

http://www.glutenfreebirmingham.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/unclebens.png

"Real" Uncle Ben

But phuckphase meant with "Uncle Ben" the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanjehu.

[Harry Smith]

Same goes to me-was merely mocking the US mindset in this situation. I don't support an attack on Iran, I'm glad Vlerchan picked up on that

[Left Now]

Same goes to me-was merely mocking the US mindset in this situation. I don't support an attack on Iran, I'm glad Vlerchan picked up on that

That's right.However,as an Iranian who supports the government type of his country,it was wrong to jail those people even if they have posted insulting things about the government in social networks,because this is not considered as an act against the security of the nation,unless they try to make tensions among public.Maybe they could've just ignored it.

[nklarke]

http://news.yahoo.com/iran-jails-eight-youths-facebook-posts-091910769.html

This is a little bit extreme if you ask me.

Well, It's extreme but nothing new.

Iran like many other countries don't have democracy and you can't talk or write against the government or against their own rules.