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Iran Focus
 Tehran, Iran,
Oct. 25 – A 22-year-old man from the town of Varamin, southern Tehran, was street-paraded and sentenced to
lashes for instigating trouble, a semi-official daily wrote on Monday.
The young man, only identified as Hashem M. (a.k.a.
Hashem Sagi), was accused
of “causing trouble”, drinking alcohol, disrupting national security, and taking
part in scuffles, the daily Kayhan wrote.
It quoted the Varamin Police’s intelligence deputy
as saying, “In accordance with the urgent plan to increase national security,
which is going on from October 10 to November 9, seditious elements in this town
are being rounded up”. The individuals are ordered by a court to be paraded
in streets by police so that it “teaches a lesson to other such
trouble-makers”.
Hashem was also sentenced to 74 lashes, three years
in prison, and five years in exile by a Varamin
court, the town’s police intelligence chief said.
His body was full of “vulgar tattoos”, the daily added.
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