Wednesday, June 24, 2009

A Bullet Fee in Iran

And now a word from Nick K.:

Farnaz Fassihi in the WS Journal reports something quite amazing: a family of a kid killed in Tehran was billed $3,000 for a "bullet fee" to recover the body. In effect, the government was charging parents for the cost of killing their kids. China used to do that in the 1980's for people it executed, but it only charged a few cents for the bullet. The Iranian authorities are grasping as well as shameless.

1 comment:

  1. Actually, in modern history it has been started by nazi. They billed relatives of people they killed in concentration camps.

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