INTL Iran Extends Death Penalty to Include Online Bloggers & Website Editors

A new law has been passed by the Iranian parliament extending use of the death penalty to online crimes. Previously, only people charged with insulting Islam or drug trafficking had been sentenced to death. In accordance with the new law, bloggers and website editors can be sentenced to death for crimes such as promoting corruption, prostitution and apostasy, the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) reported.

Blogging about subjects such as minority rights and freedom of speech and religion has already carried a risk. In 2005, blogger Mojtaba Saminejad was tried before a local court in Teheran charged with insulting the prophets, which carries the death penalty. He was eventually acquitted. Last year, two Kurdish bloggers were sentenced to death on charges of subversive activities against national security, spying and separatist propaganda.

Blogging is very popular in Iran - even the president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has his own blog and the Persian language is one of the most commonly used on the Internet. The municipality of Teheran has now decided to follow the international trend of micro blogging and decided that every neighborhood in Teheran will have its own blog, the Iranian site Hamshahri Online reported.

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ok, that does it. i am officially on the record now for immediate regime change in Iran and any other frigging islamic "republic" that issues DEATH PENALTIES for human beings exercising their God-given right to express an opinion or thought.

a few dozen neutron bombs and maybe two or three fission EMP explosives to return that muslim "civilization" back to its pre-Western exposure days sounds about right. after the resulting lack of electricity, the denizens of that benighted country may well want to reconsider their choice of rulers...

ISLAM SUCKS! Now come and get me, assholes! You'll love Texas!

yes but its politically correct to worship the Islams

my view is that they are "different" but should be allowed to get on with it so long as they do not interfere with us

I'm still amazed the PC crowd kowtow to the non PC Islams