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Iran?s dog owners could face floggings: report
A bill was presented by 32 parliament members requiring dog owners to receive 74 lashes and pay a fine. (Shutterstock)
Staff writer, Al Arabiya News
Thursday, 6 November 2014
A group of Iranian parliamentarians are reportedly calling for tougher punishments to those who sell, buy or walk pet dogs in public, including paying fines and flogging.
A bill was presented by 32 parliament members requiring dog owners to receive 74 lashes and pay a fine, claiming that the owning a dog as a pet harms Iran?s Islamic culture.
An excerpt of the bill translated in English reads that dogs are unwelcomed because of their ?uncleanliness? and violators could be ?arrested? if they are caught in public accompanying their pet.
?Anyone who takes a pet like a monkey or a dog in public and damages the Islamic culture or the health and tranquility of the people - particularly children and women, or attempts to buy or sell them, or keep them at their house, and not to act on the warnings issued by State Security Forces (police), would be fined between 10 to 100 million rials or would receive 74 lashes, plus the pet would be confiscated,? according to the France-based opposition group National Council of Resistance of Iran, which quoted an excerpt of the bill.
Detained pets would be ?transferred to a zoo or desert,? the bill added, and expenses of the transfer and keeping of the pet...
Iran?s dog owners could face floggings: report
A bill was presented by 32 parliament members requiring dog owners to receive 74 lashes and pay a fine. (Shutterstock)
Staff writer, Al Arabiya News
Thursday, 6 November 2014
A group of Iranian parliamentarians are reportedly calling for tougher punishments to those who sell, buy or walk pet dogs in public, including paying fines and flogging.
A bill was presented by 32 parliament members requiring dog owners to receive 74 lashes and pay a fine, claiming that the owning a dog as a pet harms Iran?s Islamic culture.
An excerpt of the bill translated in English reads that dogs are unwelcomed because of their ?uncleanliness? and violators could be ?arrested? if they are caught in public accompanying their pet.
?Anyone who takes a pet like a monkey or a dog in public and damages the Islamic culture or the health and tranquility of the people - particularly children and women, or attempts to buy or sell them, or keep them at their house, and not to act on the warnings issued by State Security Forces (police), would be fined between 10 to 100 million rials or would receive 74 lashes, plus the pet would be confiscated,? according to the France-based opposition group National Council of Resistance of Iran, which quoted an excerpt of the bill.
Detained pets would be ?transferred to a zoo or desert,? the bill added, and expenses of the transfer and keeping of the pet...