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    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Mon Sep 2 19:31:10 2024
    An Iranian writer is sentenced to 12 years after tweeting a dot at the
    supreme leader
    An Iranian writer and activist has been sentenced to 12 years in
    prison after replying with a single dot, or period, in response to a
    post on the social platform X by Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali
    Khamenei.
    ...
    ...
    Shanbehzadeh's post received far more "likes" than Khamenei's original
    tweet, according to Iran International English.

    Shanbehzadeh is just the latest activist to be caught up in the
    hard-line government's crackdown on critics. Iran watchers say the
    leadership has felt insecure about the high level of dissent in the
    country for a while. Artists, playwrights, directors and others are
    also being swept up and given long prison sentences. In late April,
    Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi was handed the death sentence for his antigovernment videos.

    https://www.npr.org/2024/09/02/g-s1-20579/iran-sentenced-12-years-tweet-supreme-leader

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  • From D@21:1/5 to JAB on Tue Sep 3 10:12:24 2024
    On Mon, 2 Sep 2024, JAB wrote:

    An Iranian writer is sentenced to 12 years after tweeting a dot at the supreme leader
    An Iranian writer and activist has been sentenced to 12 years in
    prison after replying with a single dot, or period, in response to a
    post on the social platform X by Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
    ...
    ...
    Shanbehzadeh's post received far more "likes" than Khamenei's original
    tweet, according to Iran International English.

    Shanbehzadeh is just the latest activist to be caught up in the
    hard-line government's crackdown on critics. Iran watchers say the
    leadership has felt insecure about the high level of dissent in the
    country for a while. Artists, playwrights, directors and others are
    also being swept up and given long prison sentences. In late April,
    Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi was handed the death sentence for his antigovernment videos.

    https://www.npr.org/2024/09/02/g-s1-20579/iran-sentenced-12-years-tweet-supreme-leader


    Wow, blows the UK completely out of the water! I think the UK tweeters got
    a year or so. On the other hand, they tweeted more than a dot. On the
    other hand, still, maybe the dot has some evil meaning for iranians?

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Sep 3 06:26:34 2024
    On Tue, 3 Sep 2024 10:12:24 +0200, D <[email protected]> wrote:

    On the other hand, still, maybe the dot has some evil meaning for iranians?

    Unknown....
    ==============================

    What is a noghte?

    Noghtes are those dots that appear above and below individual letters
    in written Persian and Arabic. Something similar, called a nuqta, is
    used in Hindi and Urdu. Like any diacritical element, they change the
    way a letterform is pronounced.

    https://hyperallergic.com/870111/chicago-artists-maryam-taghavi-travis-morehead-free-themselves-from-the-rigors-of-form/

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Sep 5 00:44:42 2024
    On 2024-09-03, D <[email protected]> wrote:
    Wow, blows the UK completely out of the water! I think the UK tweeters got
    a year or so. On the other hand, they tweeted more than a dot. On the
    other hand, still, maybe the dot has some evil meaning for iranians?

    It's a to-scale image of the Ayatollah's brain.

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