TEHRAN — Iran sentences a 74-year-old man to death for hosting “mixed and half-naked parties,” the head of Tehran’s judiciary says on Tuesday.
Chief prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi says the man led “a corruption gang,” which held parties with drugs and alcohol, and where women were “sexually harassed.”
“The head of this corruption gang has been sentenced to execution and the case has been sent for appeal to the supreme court,” he says, according to the judiciary-linked Mizan news agency.
Dolatabadi mentions another case in which six people had been arrested for downloading “obscene” Hollywood films and dubbing them into Persian.
“The gang’s website was the largest download center for Hollywood films and series, and, in the past three years, they have published 18,000 dubbed films and series, many of which were obscene and pornographic,” says Dolatabadi.
— AFP
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