Iran Authorities Ask Broadcasters to Not Show Chicken - as part of the news series by GeoBeats.
Iran is dealing with a tough economy, leading to rising prices and high inflation rates on all sorts of products. Chicken is one of those items, causing Iranian officials to pursue censorship, asking broadcasters not to show poultry dinners on screen. Law enforcement officers warn that movie scenes showing chicken meals may prompt impoverished classes to attack the privileged, who can still afford it. There has been a major increase in the price of meat since last year alone; chicken prices have soared, causing shoppers to pay three times as much as the year before.
This is not the first time government officials have come up with a bizarre solution for a country's problems.
Recently, Ethiopian officials passed a new law, which makes the use of voice over internet protocol services like Skype illegal, punishable by up to 15 years imprisonment. The government claimed the ban was the result of national security efforts. This comes after the country's only internet service provider put in systems to block the use of private browser network Tor, that allows users to access blocked websites and not be tracked by the state's ISP.
