Two men were flogged in public in the southern Iranian city of Sirjan for drinking alcohol, Sirjan’s prosecutor Mojtaba Ghadimi announced on April 9.
Ghadimi said the two men, who had been lashed in the city’s Gohar Park, have been also sentenced to two months in prison and 280 hours of public service.
The official government news agency IRNA said a video of the two men drinking alcohol near a lake had been posted online.
Drinking alcohol is forbidden in Iran and punishable by whipping, arrest, and fines.
