Hamed Sabouri, a gay man living in Afghanistan, has been abducted, tortured and murdered by the Taliban. As if that wasn’t punishment enough, a video of his execution was then sent to his family.
Elnaz Rekabi, an Iranian climber who competed in an international tournament without wearing a hijab, has disappeared. The BBC reports that her passport and mobile phone were confiscated before she boarded a plane back to Tehran today.
Another schoolgirl, 16-year-old Asra Panahi, has reportedly been killed by the Iranian security services after she was beaten in her classroom for refusing to sing a pro-regime song.
If we want to know what life might be like in an Islamic theocracy, under sharia law, unmediated by western norms, incidents such as these offer broad hints.
Love artwork, by Robert Indiana, at Wakefield Sculpture Park…
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