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Students get 99 lashes for attending mixed party
Iran has flogged dozens of students for attending a mixed-gender party after a graduation ceremony. The young men and women who attended the party in a villa near Qazvin, 140km (87 miles) north-west of the capital Tehran, received 99 lashes as punishment by the country's notorious “Morality Police”. Ismaeil Sadeqi Niaraki, a mullah who acts as the prosecutor in the city, told the Mizan news agency that a special court session was set up after the young people were discovered.
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