Cenk Uygur
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Iranians Arrested For Dancing To ‘Happy’ Song
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September 20, 2014
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September 20, 2014
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7:15Now Playing"A group of seven Iranian men and women who created and starred in their own version of a video for Pharrell Williams’ song ‘Happy’ have each been given suspended sentences of prison time and 91 lashes.
The fun-loving friends were arrested in May after posting their homemade music video ‘Happy in Tehran’ to YouTube.
They were forced to publicly confess and apologise on national television before being released on bail, with police chief Hossein Sajedinia warning others that the video was “a vulgar clip” which “hurt public chastity”.
Their lawyer Farshid Rofugaran told English-language Iranian news outlet IranWire that six of the group were yesterday given six months in prison and 91 lashes, while a seventh – the Director of the video – was also given 91 lashes but one year in jail. The sentences are suspended for three years..” *
Cenk Uygur (), Ana Kasparian (), Ben Mankiewicz () & Wes Clark Jr. break it down on The Young Turks.
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