Sex workers face a struggle worldwide for labor rights and human rights. At the extreme end of the criminalization spectrum was the fate of the unidentified 35-year-old woman who, according to the Iranian newspaper Entekhab, “was partially buried in a hole at Tehran’s Evin prison and stoned to death Sunday.”
She had been arrested eight years before for acting in “obscene sex films,” which of course are as prevalent in Iran as everywhere else.
On this day..
- 1527: Hans Hergot, immovable type
- 1952: Jan Bula, Czechoslovakian priest
- Feast Day of St. Baudilus
- 1622: Sultan Osman II
- 1691: Mark Baggot, Jacobite spy
- 1799: Simon Taylor, for indulging in drunkenness
- 1795: Ignac Martinovics and the Magyar Jacobins
- 1881: Po'olua, "darkened in my mind"
- 1943: Wilhelm H., pensioner and vandal
- 1987: Edward Earl Johnson, "I guess nobody is going to call"
- 2001: Zhang Jun and his gang
- 1820: Karl Ludwig Sand, a curious strand of German history