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Iranian Singer Pays Fine to Avoid 74 Lashes for Appearing Without Hijab in Music Video

Iranian Singer Pays Fine to Avoid 74 Lashes for Appearing Without Hijab in Music Video

Iranian singer Anita Papist revealed that she paid approximately 100 million Tomans to avoid a sentence of 74 lashes and settle a judici ...
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deadcream

The state media would paint her paying the fine as an act of submission to the law and the government, as a "proof" that she is a coward who doesn't stand by her beliefs.

It's an attempt to discredit the rebels, basically like a Russian practice of forcing troublemakers to record an "apology" video under the barrel of a gun (just outside of frame).

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DupaCycki

She would not have been beaten to death. They split the lashes punishments into as many sessions as needed for the person to survive. So instead of 74 lashes at once (guaranteed death), she'd have to take like 15 lashes 5 times.

Very considerate. I was beginning to think they're cruel.

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Not sure why I'm getting wildly different values from different currency converters. I used this one and got $386 dollars, but just used a different one and got $1200+.

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SpacemanSpiff

Results inconclusive, further research required


Classic westoid behaviour 👌. Perving on Middle Eastern women in a thread about how the evil patriarchy in Iran subjugates women. It's true that westoids will never be happy in life until every woman on earth ends up on pornhub. If you can't google hot pics of ladies in your society then is your society even functional?

Your natural instinct is to perv on the woman and imply you need to see her naked to establish her hotness. And you lack the self awareness to see how your society socialized you into this monkey behaviour where every woman is an attainable piece of ass online. Like an entire society afflicted with Tinder-brain. Objectify, Commodify, rate hotness, see if porn available, move on to the next one.

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NatakuNox

Remember, the only reason these religions nut jobs are in power is because the UK and US overthrow Iran's secular democracy for a pro west dictator. We killed off every left thinking person while secretly training and funding right wing theological factions as a region destabilizing force.
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CromulantCrow

As far as I can tell online, 100 million Iranian Rials is about $73. And there are ten toman to a rial. So maybe it's more like $730. But I also found this on a reddit thread in /iran

Officially, 10 Rials is one Toman.
But very unofficially, toman can erase as many zeros as you want based on the context.
Talking about a bottle of water? 2 toman means 2000 tomans.
Talking about something a bit more expensive, like a rug? 20 tomans means 20 000 000 tomans.
Talking about something very very expensive like a house? 4 toman means 4 000 000 000 tomans.


Since this is a large number and it's in the news, that probably doesn't apply. It sounds more like street vernacular. But it tells me that I really don't know anything about Iranian money.

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Mulligrubs

I know it's stupid, but I'm relieved for the girl. 74 lashes seems a little much. and of course other people have died over this and other "Islamic law", if she had said "I'm atheist" or "I'm gay" she'd be long dead.

To me, it's so horrible that I can't research Iran et al for long without having to tap out

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percent

A fine? Does the religion carve out exceptions in exchange for money, or do they just disregard the religion in exchange for money?

Either way, it might be interesting if she can (SAFELY) keep doing it at every show and the budget can cover the fines as a business expense. Maybe she could help normalize it a bit. (I assume that would be a good thing, but I admit that I'm pretty ignorant on the topic.)

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SpacemanSpiff

You think this money will go to "old men running the government"? It goes into the state's budget like all other revenue. This complaint is like complaining speeding fines will go to old men running the government.

Whether you agree or disagree with these fines, it's indisputable that iran still has a more functional, less corrupt government than say, Egypt or Saudi or Kuwait or Iraq or any number of regional US allies

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percent

You're referring to this part, right?

[...] her lack of a prior criminal record made it legally possible to convert the 74 lashes into a cash fine.


Does a criminal record include cash fines in Iran, or does she continue having no criminal record?

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wpb

I feel that I'm being manipulated. The headlines about this story used to be "Singer gets punished with 74 lashes for violating some religious law". Now I find out that you can just avoid the lashes by paying a fine. It's like saying "man faces prison for going 10km/h over the speed limit" because if you don't pay a fine, you eventually end up in prison.

And even in this story that reveals that you choose between paying a fine and corporal punishment, I feel manipulated. 100 MILLION troman sounds like a lot, but it turns out it's just 730 bucks.

How incredibly gross and blatant, this consent manufacturing machine. I guess it doesn't need to be subtle, people only remember headlines. Damage done, mission successful. Maybe war on Iran is good actually. We'll get it right this time.

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IMALlama

100 MILLION troman sounds like a lot, but it turns out it's just 730 bucks.


Using pure currency conversion, sure.

The average annual income of an urban household was approximately 3.432 billion rials


Sauce. Evidently there's a factor of 10 difference between these two denominations, so you're talking about 1/3 of the average household's income. For Muricans, that's around $27k.

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