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The Beatings Will Continue: Iraqi and Iranian Editions
2016-08-04

ISIS detains 50 for smokin' and jokin'

[ARA News] DAMASCUS – Militants of the Islamic State (ISIS) have arrested more than 50 people in the Yarmouk district south of the Syrian capital Damascus on charges of “smoking”, activists reported on Thursday.

“ISIS jihadis launched a new campaign of arrests among the residents of Yarmouk area and captured more than 50 men for smoking,” media activist Mazin al-Shami told ARA News in Damascus.

“ISIS is expected to publicly flog the arrestees soon, as it usually does to smokers,” al-Shami said.

The Islamic State has banned smoking in areas under its control in Syria and Iraq. Anyone captured smoking is being detained and flogged on charges of violating the group’s regulations.

Although ISIS has recently suffered heavy losses due to fighting with Syrian rebel factions in Damascus, the group still holds control of some parts of Yarmouk district –mostly inhabited by Palestinian refugees– and forces people to abide by its rules.

Iran executes 29 Kurds in Tehran

[ARA News] ERBIL – The Iranian authorities executed a number of Kurdish activists accused of involvement in terrorist activities, local sources said on Wednesday.

Human rights activists in the Iranian capital Tehran told ARA News that 29 Kurdish political activists, who have been held for months in the Raja’i prison in Tehran, were executed on charges of terrorism.

The victims were publicly hanged to death on Wednesday.

“They were convicted on terrorism charges because of participating in political activities against the Iranian regime,” rights activist Riyad Othman told ARA News.

This comes just two weeks after Iranian security forces arrested over 40 young activists, and executed at least 27 of them.

“The authorities did not announce the real reason behind the execution of those people. It said they were a group of drug dealers, but this is a baseless charge fabricated to misguide international rights organisations. The victims were political activists and most of them were Kurds,” Iranian Kurdish politician Enwer Mohamadi said.

“We continue to witness these brutal executions in the streets of Iran, while the international community remains unable to take action against this totalitarian regime,” Mohamadi told ARA News.

The Iranian regime has executed dozens of opposition activists across the country by hanging them to death in public squares, according to local sources.

In the meantime, several human rights organisations condemned brutal practices by the Iranian authorities, especially the public execution of opposition figures and civil rights activities.

According to reports, the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran has executed at least 2500 people in the past two years.
Posted by:badanov

#2  Maybe the Iranians learned a lesson from Obama - you can't commute a prison sentence if they be daid.
Posted by: Bobby   2016-08-04 08:43  

#1  group still holds control of some parts of Yarmouk district – mostly inhabited by Palestinian refugees

Somebody tell the progressives! They can boycott IS for being mean to Paleos!
Posted by: Bobby   2016-08-04 08:42  

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