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Well, the article says something different.

Isn't sending Amy Winehouse to another nation considered a war crime by the UN?

That's such *********

Well, I am not sure what will happen but the bad sentiment this will raise is surely not what the Iranian government needs when it has a US president willing to engage in talks with them. The problem both sides have now is that neither side can afford to lose face. The Iranians cannot backtrack the sentence without looking foolish and the Americans cannot let her rot in a jail for 8 years for a non-crime. I'm hoping they reduce her sentence to her time served and let her free.

The worst part in all this is that because of the disgraceful treatment of prisoners without trial in Guatanamo bay and rendition flights, the US cannot hold its head high and claim a moral higher ground. At least the Iranians gave her a trial and can claim they followed their own laws (even if it is a politically based judgement).

And just because I'm replying to Totem .. I wonder what Saint Obama will do about this

A closed-doors trial, where they refused to let the evidence or proceedings be made public. What's stupid is that their moronic political posturing is going to wreck that woman's life. It's retarded how they force themselves into these cul-de-sacs - they can't let her go without losing face, but keeping her there is just going to **** off the US and make their judicial system look corrupt and politically motivated.

Well, there's a bright side. If they get pressured into letting her out, she gets a book deal out of it.

Zepoodle is from ******* austrailia iirc

don't make a dimwit of yourself, at LEAST end with iirc

iirc

You're right. Of course justice should be entirely subjective to the country you come from! That's why we're allowed to just execute anyone we want if they're from a third-world country, no matter if they've earned citizenship here.

Christ, you're a stupid one. Not to mention naive, if you think the only way she's getting out of this is through Iran's courts.

And they say Americans paint foreigners with a broad brush. Good to know you guys can be just as ignorant

Edited, Apr 18th 2009 11:22pm by Jophiel

My guess is that she'll be given back to the United States in a show of magnaminity and demonstration of thawing relations between our two countries. Iran will continue to claim she was snooping around, she'll deny it, the US will solemnly proclaim that wiser and cooler heads have prevailed and that this is a concrete step towards better relations. Then in two weeks no one will remember anything about the tempest in a teapot.

Totem

I'm too lazy to construct a proper argument. Armed conflict over this isn't the way to go though. It's not like she's a prisoner of war, so getting her released on political grounds isn't going to fly either.Didn't someone in this thread mention that she's an Iranian citizen? What do you expect the US govarnment to do about it?

Would it make much of a difference? You still have to follow the laws of whatever country you happen to be in. Perhaps the sentence was a bit harsh, idk, I'm not an Iranian lawyer. For all we know any Full Iranian would get a similar punishment. Who knows, maybe they're just making an example of her, courts like to do that.