Man being lashed in public in Iran, August 7, 2014

IRAN: FOUR MEN LASHED IN PUBLIC FOR ‘MISCHIEF’

November 22, 2014: The Iranian regime henchmen lashed four men for “mischief” in public in a southern city.
The commander of the State Security Forces (police) in the city of Charam was quoted by a local website as saying: “The four individuals were each sentenced to 74 lashes for the destruction of public property, thievery and using drugs.”
“With carrying out such sentences the outlaws and violators… would understand that the judiciary would not be negligent at all in dealing with them.”
Mohammad Mousavi said: “The lashing sentence for the four individuals was carried out in public in the main square in the city of Charam.”
Charam, a city with some 7,000 families according to a 2006 census, is located in Kohgiluyeh and Boyerahmad province. A video obtained as recently as November shows the Iranian regime’s masked State Security Forces publicly beating and abusing a group of young men while parading them through the streets, handcuffed in the back of an open truck.
The surge in humiliating punishments and executions, among other violations of human rights in Iran since Hassan Rouhani has become president, is aimed at spreading fear and intimidation among the public, particularly among the youth and women. (Source: NCRI, Nov. 23, 2014)