Iraqi students held for wearing jeans - Democratic Underground

Barrett808

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Tue Jun-28-05 05:14 PM
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Iraqi students held for wearing jeans

Najaf (Iraq): Students in the Shi’ite Muslim religious Iraqi city of Najaf said the police recently arrested and beat several of them for wearing jeans and having long hair.

“They arrested us because of our hair and because we were wearing jeans,” said student Mr Mohammed Jasim, adding that the arrests took place two weeks ago in the city, the spiritual heart of Iraq’s newly dominant Shi’ite majority.

“They beat us in front of the people. Then they took us to their headquarters, beat us again, shaved our heads and tore our clothes.

“When we asked what we had done, they said that we had no honour,” he told Reuters this week.

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http://www.navhindtimes.com/stories.php?part=news&Story_ID=062828

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Tue Jun-28-05 05:15 PM
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1. Hooray for Freedom!

They're now free to live in a theocracy.

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Tue Jun-28-05 05:16 PM
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2. Freedom is on the march!!

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Tue Jun-28-05 05:24 PM
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3. Posted on DU June 24th

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1578780

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