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To be fair there’s very few countries prisons that I’ve heard rave reviews of.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)


An Iranian court has handed jail sentences of more than 10 years each to a young couple who danced in front of one of Tehran's main landmarks in a video seen as a symbol of defiance against the regime, activists have said.
Astiyazh Haghighi and her fiance, Amir Mohammad Ahmadi, both in their early 20s, were arrested in early November after a video went viral showing them dancing romantically in front of the Azadi Tower.
A revolutionary court in Tehran sentenced them each to 10 years and six months in prison, as well as imposing bans on using the internet and leaving Iran, the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency said.


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truly disgusting regime >

I'm not sure if this is meant to be in jest, but in case it's not, this is a completely false equivalence. This is a fairly isolated incident whereas 10 years of jail time for dancing in public is pretty much par for the course in Iran. >

They're both so young and they're going to spend the best years of their lives in a fucking Iranian prison. >

And from what we’ve heard about Iranian prisons I worry for them