Monday, July 7, 2008

Capital punishment for disturbing mental security in Iran!

In the new legislation that was introduced in Iran's Parliament on 2 July 2008, it expands capital punishment to certain blogs and websites activities, ambiguously defined as the “Establishment and operation of blogs and websites promoting corruption, pornography, and atheism.”

Based on this legislation, blogging about pornography and atheism has equal punishment as "banditry and armed robbery", "rape", "formation of corruption and pornography gangs", "human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation", "viciousness" and "kidnapping for ransom or rape".

Unfortunately this legislation is going to have huge impact on blogosphere community in Iran because

1. They are going to categorize any political blog or website under corruption definition, and harshly punish political bloggers.

2. Atheist bloggers which are relatively new to Iranian blogosphere community will halt on writing about atheism and introducing logical thinking to religion and specially Islam.
Even now, before introducing this legislation, accepting atheism has death penalty under Islamic Penal Code. So nobody can come out and say I am an atheist!

3. I am not sure about porn blogs because usually Iranians residing outside of Iran would publish such blogs due to open access to porn website and copying material to their own blogs. So I don't think so that's going to affect much on porn blogs proportion.

I guess they are going to charge me for rottengods.com! you know, the name of rottengods is too immoral!

Courtesy Iran Human Rights Campaign

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