Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer
IRAN: 14,635 ARRESTED IN MORALISATION CAMPAIGN
AKI reports:
In the four weeks since a highly publicised government moralisation campaign kicked off, 14,635 people were temporarily detained under strict new Islamic dress code laws punishing offenders with arrest. Another 67,000 people were reprimanded by police, according to a tally kept by the local Rooz daily based on police statements. Only in airports and train stations some 1,115 people, mostly women, were arrested while 17,135 were not allowed to board planes or trains as they were not dressed properly.
Sheeba Kalbasi reports: "More than five hundred Iranian Azaris have been arrested or disappeared in the past week."
But they have a "right" to develop nukes like everybody else, right?!
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