An Iranian music sensation and an eight-person production team were reportedly sentenced to 74 brutal lashings for the singer ...

Iranian singer Parastoo Ahmadi and eight members of her production team have reportedly been sentenced to 74 lashes after ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Indonesian woman was whipped 100 times over an affair for which the man got 15 lashes, AFP reported. Public flogging is a ...

Pop singer Mehdi Yarrahi has been given 74 lashes for a song criticizing Iran's mandatory dress code for women, ending a criminal case against him that also included a prison term. His lawyer, Zahra ...

Musicians and production team understood to be facing same punishment after livestream of patriotic song ...

March 6 (UPI) --Iranian musician Mehdi Yarrahi received 74 lashes as part of his sentence a song supporing women's rights and opposes the Middle Eastern country's draconian hijab laws, his lawyer said ...

Given the choice between five years in prison and 10 lashes, which would you chose? Peter Moskos, a criminologist and former Baltimore police officer, claims that flogging (a form of corporal ...

Iranian singer Parastoo Ahmadi has been sentenced to 74 lashes, a two-year travel ban and restrictions on artistic activities after performing without a hijab during a livestreamed YouTube concert in ...