Iran sentences film actress to 90 lashes

[AsahinaKimi]

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An Iranian court has sentenced an Iranian actress to 90 lashes for her role in a new Australian-made film portraying social alienation, drug use and political oppression in Iran.

"In an outcome that could have been lifted from the pages of the movie's script"--"My Tehran for Sale"--the film's lead actress, Marzieh Vafamehr, "was arrested in July and received her sentence at the weekend, according to reports quoting Iranian opposition website kalameh.com," the Sydney Morning Herald reported.

"Vafamehr often appears with a shaved head and no headscarf in the film, which also explores cultural oppression in Iran and taboos such as drug use," the paper said.

Granaz Moussavi, the Melbourne-based Iranian-Australian director of the film, declined to comment to the paper out of respect for the actress' family's wishes. Her portions of the film were "shot on the sly in Iran with a local crew in 2008," the paper said.

more..
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/iran-sentences-film-actress-90-lashes-214527275.html

very sad...

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. Ninety serious lashes can be a possible death sentence...

I'm busy waiting for Iran to join the Revolutions. I'm sure they are as well.

[haikugal]

2. I agree...90 lashes is a death sentence. Horrible.

[richmwill]

3. Barbaric.

Absolutely barbaric.

[DocMac]

4. Why can't some of those people get out?

Oh...my bad. The US hates Muslims.

[demosincebirth]

5. They are just misunderstood.