The Parliament of Iran is discussing a draft bill that criminalizes “establishing weblogs and sites promoting corruption, prostitution and apostasy (abandonment of one’s religion).” This is on top of a long list of crimes punishable by death.
Iran already has a record for imprisoning bloggers who challenges the government. It would seem that this move is the logical step up.
Those convicted of these crimes “should be punished as ‘mohareb’ (enemy of God) and ‘corrupt on the earth’,” the text says.
Under Iranian law the standard punishments for these two crimes are “hanging, amputation of the right hand and then the left foot as well as exile”.
The bill — which is yet to be debated by lawmakers — also stipulates that the punishment handed out in these cases “cannot be commuted, suspended or changed”. {source}
Scary, huh? But any criminal should be. That’s the purpose of the death penalty law.
In the Philippines, the worst an erring blogger could face is a criminal charge for libel (or enticing to sedition, perhaps?). Good thing the death penalty in the Philippines has been abolished by GMA. *heh*
well..this day we must to be practical..rule is rule…Hamurabi did it so there is also an inheritance of rules among nations…and because they believe its good to there country and its also a good legacy or model to other country..
great…
@jc
freedom should be intertwined with responsibility. tayo puro freedom, walang responsibility.
waw grabe… nakakatakot… pero ang pilipinas they pass laws or policies that cater to religion. e.g. anti – birth control, abortion, death penalty etc… are we any different? maybe to a certain degree… we’re just not that harsh…
i agree on the great influence of the politicians. that is why, if we want to know about a religion for example, we must go to the real source and not the practitioners/followers.
This is one of the many reasons why I left Islam.