
According to an Uppsala district court document, the two individuals convicted of rape in the case discussed below are Maysam Afshar and Reza Mohammed Ahmadi. The third man, charged with failing to report the crime and defamation for broadcasting it, is named Emil Khodagholi. All three men are foreign-born: Afshar and Ahmadi are Afghani Muslims, whereas Khodagholi is Armenian. It is worth noting the abject leniency of the sentences, the horrific nature of the crime itself, and the unwillingness of some news outlets to publish the perpetrators’ names. Reuters: A Swedish court jailed three men on Tuesday for up to two and a half years for the rape of a woman that was broadcast live on Facebook. The rape, which shocked Sweden, took place earlier this year in the city of Uppsala, about 80 km (50…