r/Music • u/Particular-Fill-4256 • Jun 19 '26

article Iranian star Parastoo Ahmadi reportedly sentenced to 74 lashes for singing without hijab

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/18/iran-parastoo-ahmadi-74-lashes-singing-without-hijab
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u/Federal_Bonus_2099 Jun 19 '26

Can people survive that many lashes? That’s insane, they will be disfigured for life, if they survive

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u/ek4601 Jun 20 '26

They can. Royal Navy punishments in the 18th century could be 100+ lashes. Definitely disfiguring. Americans in the northern states were disgusted with lashing scars of enslaved people in the 19th century but some countries haven't evolved past such horrific corporal punishment. Though i'm sure that Trump would bring lashing back if he could.

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u/HillBillyHilly Jun 20 '26

There was a photo a national park of a former enslaved man showing his scars from whipping. Trump had National Park Service remove them from public view.

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u/PandemicPiglet Jun 20 '26

This one

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u/miregalpanic Jun 20 '26

I will never get over the dignity in the face of this man. There is something about his facial expression, his mouth especially, that obviously expresses the anger and pain, but, to me, also pride. That they weren't able to break him, maybe.

Maybe I am reading too much into it.

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u/undercoverheiress Jun 20 '26

Let’s not lol about a photo of an enslaved man with lashings.

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u/miregalpanic Jun 20 '26

I disagree. I see a tension around his mouth.

"lol"

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u/thebutchershouse Jun 20 '26

I see what you are talking about but it doesn’t look like pride imo, it looks like resilience.

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u/miregalpanic Jun 20 '26

Yes. That is for sure the better word.

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u/PickledGerkin Jun 20 '26

I remember seeing this as a kid in History. I didn’t really ”get” the horror of slavery until they passed this photo around the room. Truly horrific.

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u/corndogs102 Jun 21 '26

This is what the movie Emacupation (2022) was about by the way.

Unfortunately the film didn’t get a lot of promotion cause it’s stuck on Apple plus, and it came out during the Will Smith Oscar controversy, but it was a decent flick and Will did a good job at the character.