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Monday, August 24, 2009

International Asking for It

Posted by Brendan Kiley on Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:26 PM

Young man protests the results of dubious presidential election. Young man is arrested. Young man is raped by prison guards. Investigating authorities decide the young man was asking for it.

"I asked them why I and others were raped in prison," the young man says he asked two interrogators and a judge who had agreed to hear his story, according to the website of former parliamentary speaker Mehdi Karroubi.

One of the three replied, "'When the supreme leader confirmed the election result, everyone should have recognized it."

He said he was at first humiliated by the experience and suicidal, but was consoled by Karroubi, a cleric, who helped him regain his composure and self-esteem.

"He devoted himself like a psychiatrist to me to convince me that I was innocent," he said, according to the account. "He cited religious examples, and I was finally convinced that when someone is raped with his hands and feet tied is not a sinner and is on the contrary an oppressed."

Christ almighty.

In other bad news, Ahmadinejad has nominated a terror suspect for the job of defense minister:

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad nominated Gen Ahmad Vahidi - even though he is wanted by Interpol for the 1994 attack on a Jewish centre that left 85 dead.

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Briefly, just briefly, I read your first paragraph and my mind tried to set it in America.

Interesting to imagine a "birther" getting treated like that, with an activist liberal judge snubbing his plea for justice.

Then I read further, realized this was in Iran, and the strange scenario of my imagination vanished in a poof.

Posted by Ackham on August 24, 2009 at 1:47 PM

I thought there was no homosexuality in Iran.

I suppose my collection of gay prison rape porn isn't gay after all.

Posted by Gus on August 24, 2009 at 2:01 PM

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Shame on you.
Homosexuals don't rape.
Or molest teenage boys.
Or give anyone AIDS.
Or litter.
They are Gentle People.
These guards were heterosexuals out to give homosexuals a bad name.
Damn Christian Evangelical Conspiracy- infiltrating Iranian prisons to make the Gays look bad.

Posted by FlowerChild on August 24, 2009 at 2:10 PM

So what he appointed a terrorist to a position in his government. We have a domestic terrorist party in the United States: we call them Republicans and they will stop and nothing to ruin our great land.

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on August 24, 2009 at 2:15 PM