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context: But only 8 years for decapitating your 17-year-old wife and parading her head around in public (that you married when she was 12 [which was no issue]).  Awful news from Iran, today. >
  
  It's a sad reflection of the state of human rights in Iran when such a punishment is meted out for peaceful expression of opinions and support.
  The fact that much harsher punishments are given for other crimes is even more concerning. >
  
  Rhythmically moving your body?! 20 years in prison!
  Seriously, what kind of insanity is that? >
  
  I mean you’re just making shit up. You know damn well it’s not because they were dancing, they could’ve been sitting there and they could’ve been jailed for the same reason. >
  
  No social media, no leaving the country, no bail and most important no lawyer. Smth. >
  
  Fuck all these facist dictator states. It’s fucking mind boggling to me that after the 20th century, ww1, and ww2, were still dealing with this bullshit. >
  
  Gotta love that democracy! >
  
  "ISIS 2.0" >
  
  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 56%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  An Iranian court has sentenced two bloggers to ten and a half years in prison each for dancing in the streets in support of the nationwide protests which have swept the country since September.
  The couple - Amir Mohammad Ahmadi, 22 and Astiyazh Haqiqi, 21 - shared a video of themselves dancing Azadi Square in Iran's capital Tehran to show support for the protests after the death of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in custody of the Iranian morality police.
  The couple have also been charged with "Colluding with the intention of disrupting national security and promoting propaganda."
  
  
  Extended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: couple^#1 protest^#2 charged^#3 ban^#4 two-year^#5 >
  
  For those who didn’t actually read the article, they were charged with 10 and a half years EACH. Also given social media bans and prevented from leaving the country for 2 years after. Nothing I’m saying lightens the OP’s Headline. It’s quite sad you can be punished for opinions. >
  
  From the west to the east, the religious are a plague. >
  
  I hate this thing where people hedge their criticism of Iran or some other awful place by also criticizing the west.
  It's like someone reading about people starving half the world away and saying "starving there, too much unhealthy fast food making people overweight here.  Wow nutrition really is a huge problem everywhere huh." >
  
  Not every corner of the earth is suffering from starvation 24/7 365. We also collectively work hard to reduce starvation as much as possible. We don’t want starvation to be occurring and many places are quite free of it. 
  Religion is vastly opposite to that. >
  
  This was done by a theocratic oppressive government.
  Rather than criticizing the specific government that has done this or the specific type of government lets just criticize the concept of governments collectively.  All governments.
  From East to West Governments are a plague on our society! >
  
  I recognize your ability to make absurd arguments, as you wanted to prove. Now get lost apologist. >
  
  This Footloose remake is kinda morbid. >
  
  At least tik tok-ers are getting what they deserve now >
  
  Why are humans still like this????? >
  
  As long as religion is around, it will never stop >
  
  My guy thinks that authoritarian regimes wouldn’t exist without religion ☠️ >
  
  You made a basic logical fallacy.
  The person is saying with religions there will always be authoritarian regimes. Spot the difference. >
  
  🎵You can dance if you want to, but you'll leave your friends behind. Because your friends don't dance and if they don't dance well they're not going to be behind.🎵 Bars. >
  
  Is that Blue Steel? >
  
  Right down to not being able to turn left. >
  
  This seems like a surefire move to really instigate a revolution. Throwing kids in prison for dancing... burn the whole fucking thing down. >
  
  blasphemers! >
  
  The article literally says 10.5 years each... >
  
  You are not allowed to editorialize headlines.
  10.5 X 2 = 21 years, so I guess that is what the source was going for.  It is still a ridiculous sentence for merely dancing and I hope you would agree. >
  
  I agree, the title is misleading. I didn't edit it. >
  
  We are banning books in the USA due to this same religious shit. Another country started doing this as well about 75 years ago and that turned out just super. Time to start getting rid of these parasite religions >
  
  Someone put baby in the corner >
  
  I hope they go back and dance again in the exact same spot as soon as they get out. Whenever I meet Iranians they’re vibrant, friendly and love life. The Iranian government is twisted beyond evil. >
  
  Fuck man, after 21 years...they get their lives broken, years of potential beloved memories stripped away, no more starting a family and growing older together. >
  
  The real question is, if they dance while in jail will they be disrupting national security??????? >
  
  They will be tortured + raped + sad forever. They are likely to never see each other again >
  
  That's right. Many prisoners go on a hunger-strike and die after being tortured, raped and having stokes. >
  
  Mick is not happy and David is rolling in his grave. >
  
  So how often are these types of punishments given reduced sentences later? This is such shit. A couple's best-lived lives are taken away from just dancing in joy. Now they get released when middle-aged. Fuck you Iran. >
  
  Fun fact: If you go to prison for such "infidelities" here in Iran, there is a high chance they will not free you after those years and keep you in prison for a couple of years. They did this to prisoners in the 1980s and then executed thousands of them without a court or a lawyer (Islam doesn't approve of lawyers). There was no social media back then but those thousands executed were all buried in mass graves in Khavaran, Tehran. >
  
  once this is over i hope the people put the regime leaders on public display and have tomatoes and eggs thrown at them >
  
  Been going on for more than 4 decades, they have paramilitaries from Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Africa. China and Russia are assisting them as well (e.g. Huawei gave them tracing and eavesdropping on mobile communications equipment years ago). I don't see how we could do something but for now we are doing our best. >
  
  It’s a very sad world >
  
  Horrific abuse of power and human rights. Israel should take out this poor excuse for a nation state. >
  
  Im sure this fucking gov will get punished in the near future..ppl wont accept these shitshow any longer >
  
  Iran going Footloose