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June 10, 2008       Share:    

Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/irans-brutal-morality-police-are-growing-in-power-warns-nobel-prizewinner-842090.html

Iran's Brutal Morality Police Are Growing in Power

[Independent-UK ] Anne Penketh - Zahra Bani Yaghoub was sitting on a park bench chatting to her fianc? when Iranian religious police arrived and arrested the couple. The fianc? was released but the body of Ms. Bani Yaghoub, a 27-year-old doctor, was delivered to her family two days later. According to Shirin Ebadi, a Tehran-based lawyer who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003, "Ms. Bani Yaghoub's family believes she was tortured and died as a result. That's my reading, too." Under President Ahmadinejad, Iran's feared morality police have been acting with renewed vigor against what they consider to be unIslamic behavior.

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