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Civil Liberties

Tunisian Preacher Calls Teen Girl Who Posted Topless Photo Online an "Epidemic" and Demands "Quarantine"

"Public health"

Reason Staff | 3.25.2013 11:56 AM

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A Tunisian Salafi preacher has called for a 19-year old girl who posted her topless pictures on Facebook to be "quarantined" and stoned to death before she starts "an epidemic."

Tunisian newspaper AssabahNews quoted Salafi preacher Alami Adel, who heads the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, saying: "According to God's law, she deserves 80 to 100 lashes, but what she committed is worth much more than that. She deserves to be stoned to death and she must be quarantined because what she did is an epidemic."

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