Details from Iran

Click on the link below and read Anne Applebaum's article about two Iranian sisters, Ladan and Roya Boroumand, who are building a database of victims of Iran's Islamic regime. Their father was murdered by Iranian agents in Paris in 1991; they now live in Washington D.C. and believe their own lives are in danger.

Here's one victim's story:
"A young girl in Tehran in 1981 was arrested for swimming in her home pool in a bathing suit, [having been] found guilty of causing 'a state of sexual arousal' in a neighbor. She was sentenced to 60 lashes, but died after the 30th lash."

From 1994: "A woman was found guilty of adultery. She was buried up to her breasts in Tehran and stoned to death slowly."

The article is not simply a recitation of victims' stories--it's about the sisters' efforts to "embarrass those members of the Iranian regime who still try to hide the true nature of their revolution from the outside world."
The sisters hope to "start a real public debate about the regime's crimes in Iran--and ultimately about accountability, due process and democracy."

Check it out. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/19/AR2006011902494.html