"It is better for the hands and feet of the subject be tied to prevent the subject from moving that may lead to the whip hitting banned parts of the body"... "Lashing must be carried out as subject is placed lying down on their stomach, with their clothes on, and the lashes are delivered on the back part of the body, instead of head, face and genitals" ... "The lashing must be carried out at a continuous rhythm" ... "[For women] the lashing is delivered with the utmost severity on the entire body, other than head, face and genitals"... These are the articles stated in the "laws" of the "Islamic republic" of Iran under the rules of "Velayat- E -#" (supreme leader) that place this regime alongside 32 other countries supporting physical methods of punishment. And based on these very "laws" during the past months a blogger in the city of Saveh (northern Iran) has been sentenced to 444 lashes; 17 protesting workers in Takab (northwestern Iran) sentenced to 30 to 100 lashes each; 35 individuals in Ghazvin (northwestern Iran) sentenced to 99 lashes each for the "crime" of going to a night party; 9 workers in Yazd (central Iran) sentenced to 50 lashes each; 2 poets sentenced to 99 lashes each for kissing the cheeks and shaking hands of a "non-family member"; 74 lashes for protesters in Tabriz (northwestern Iran)...

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