Brickbat: The Crime of Reporting

An Iranian court has sentenced two journalists to more than a decade in prison for their coverage of the death Mahsa Amini. Amini died last year in the custody of the morality police after being arrested for violating the nation's Islamic dress code. Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi received sentences of 13 and 12 years in prison, respectively, after being convicted of collaboration with the U.S. government and acting against national security, among other charges.

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[gaoxiaen]

It's harder if you're less than human.

[Fist of Etiquette]

An Iranian court has-

Oh, come on. Might as well be doing brickbats about British speech arrests.

[Minadin]

Like the guy who was arrested for complaining on TikTok about all the Palestinian flags on display in his neighborhood?

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1719509199162413334

[ObviouslyNotSpam]

UK police are among the dumbest cops out there.

Their saving grace is that most of them are not armed.

[Illocust]

And this is something to remember when dealing with foreign reporters. Third world countries don't hesitate to lock you up if you make those in charge look bad, so your going to have s high percentage of people reporting that agree with the regime.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

Couldn't find a country with some press protections? They weren't executed. Not a brickbat.

[Longtobefree]

Exactly. No blood, no foul.

[mad.casual]

Couldn’t find a country with some press protections?

Trump denied them Visas.

I have no idea whether the above statement is true but, apparently, just stating such potentially makes me a protected member of the press in this country.

And the statement above this one potentially makes me a vile hackneyed, persona non grata, among the press in this country.

Ain’t free speech press protection great?!

[Social Justice is neither]

We are talking about people that bend over backward to find J6 and the Trump ballot persecutions “normal” so not certain any press protections are valuable if you’re looking for a thing but regime propaganda.

[mad.casual]

Is an Iranian Women’s Prison the sort of situation where the women who’ve just been released are primarily interested in one thing? Asking for a friend.

[sarcasmic]

Iranian people are great. Their government sucks.

[damikesc]

Pretty much. Shame they overthrew a dictatorial Shah for a dramatically more dictatorial theocracy.

I wonder if the revolutionaries of 1979 have any regrets

[R Mac]

The CIA doesn’t regret a thing.

[Old Engineer]

Maybe that explains why no president, not Bush II, Obama, Trump or Biden has ever expressed support for the Iranian "Green Movement" (not the environmentalist cult, a group for a secular Iran). Despite candle light vigils expressing their support for America after 9-11, Bush never acknowledged them. Despite demonstrations during several summers, Obama never acknowledged them. Trump never noticed and Biden isn't sentient.

Advice from the CIA, or just ordinary politics?

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

No, but the secular left-wing anti-colonialist academics who supported it do.

[gaoxiaen]

Everyone that I know who have been there say the same thing. Iran/Persia has a magnificent culture, history, and society. Too bad the mad mullahs are bent on destroying it.

[Jerry B.]

Given Iran's support for Hamas, I'm surprised these women weren't assigned human shield duty in Gaza.

[gaoxiaen]

How do you know that they weren't? The mad mullahs sent human waves of adolescent boys to fight against Iraq.

[Dillinger]

>>convicted of collaboration with the U.S. government and acting against national security

you kissing your Constitution today?

[Ride 'Em]

Bill of Rights, the Founders second greatest contribution to freedom. Although the three branches of the government are trying and are subverting the Constitution.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

What Iran could use is some kind of secular, western-friendly government that lets women go out on the street without a hijab.

[Its_Not_Inevitable]

Could be led by a Shah or something?

[mad.casual]

I think he means the more modern, pro-feminist Taliban.

[JFree]

They’ve been there done that. Iran in the 60’s when I lived there.

That would have been North Tehran then. South Tehran was chadors.

[gaoxiaen]

The Iranian people know and want that, but they prefer staying out of prison and staying alive.

[AT]

Meanwhile, Iran becomes the new chair of the UN Human Rights Forum.

https://unwatch.org/iran-to-chair-un-human-rights-forum-on-thursday-sparking-protests/

The United Nations of Clown World.

[gaoxiaen]

Wowser! Now we only need China, Russia, Venezuela, North Korea, and other Socialist dictatorships and the Muslim countries to vote on it and human rights could be banned forever.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

Just read an article in Salon that assures me that Christians are a much bigger threat to our country than Hamas could ever be; articles such as this from Reason should be banned for their potential to promote Islamophobia.