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Depending on how long you are likely to go away, it's probably best do just do the time. Escaping, as others suggested, would mean leaving your life behind, li

by shubb 13y ago

Depending on how long you are likely to go away, it's probably best do just do the time. Escaping, as others suggested, would mean leaving your life behind, likely living as an illegal elsewhere (without the ability to open a bank account or own a business). If it's probably just a couple of years, it's probably best to sit it out, and resume your life after. You need to hook up with someone you really trust, and give them 50% revenue of the startup (after a while, they will see it as theirs, and wonder why they are paying you if it's less). Family would be good, but otherwise an old friend. If they are technically literate, maybe they can outsource the actual work so long as they remain in control.

davidcollantes 13y ago
I disagree. I say run, leave that country. I once did the same. Why would he like to live in a country governed by religion to the point that a secular photo gets you to jail? Run, start your life somewhere else. That is my advise.
- shubb 13y ago
  A lot of countries have dogmatic laws many people in them disagree with. For instance, in the US, you can go to jail for selling cannabis, and a lot of people disagree with that. If an American friend told you he was about to go to jail for a year for selling drugs, and you felt it was unfair, would you tell him to flee? As such, you can comply with unfair laws, or not and take the consequences, or go somewhere with different laws. Separately, you might campaign to change them, but while those laws are in place the above choices are all you have. Which you do is really a cost benefit thing.
  - 300bps 13y ago
    If an American friend told you he was about to go to jail for a year for selling drugs OP and his girlfriend face 8 years in jail for posting a picture of themselves eating pork on Facebook. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/18/sex-bloggers-could-face-years-in-prison-for-posting-facebook-photo-that-infuriated-malaysian-muslims/ http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/18/sex-bloggers-coul...
    - shubb 13y ago
      8 years is a long time - a lot more than ~2 which is what I'd assumed. Given the circumstances Op may find running away the best option.
    - bmelton 13y ago
      Not that it changes the ridiculousness of the matter at all, but I think their sex blog also factors in to the persecution.
  - pessimizer 13y ago
    >If an American friend told you he was about to go to jail for a year for selling drugs, and you felt it was unfair, would you tell him to flee? For a year? I'd tell him to stay. For 4-5 years, or 10-15? Run if you can come up with any way to. This particular case also revolves around religious freedom, so it may be possible to get refugee status somewhere, esp. being high-skilled and entrepreneurial.
lettergram 13y ago
Depends.. I'd run if I had to spend 8 years in prison for example

by shubb 13y ago

davidcollantes 13y ago

I disagree. I say run, leave that country. I once did the same. Why would he like to live in a country governed by religion to the point that a secular photo gets you to jail? Run, start your life somewhere else. That is my advise.

shubb 13y ago
A lot of countries have dogmatic laws many people in them disagree with. For instance, in the US, you can go to jail for selling cannabis, and a lot of people disagree with that. If an American friend told you he was about to go to jail for a year for selling drugs, and you felt it was unfair, would you tell him to flee? As such, you can comply with unfair laws, or not and take the consequences, or go somewhere with different laws. Separately, you might campaign to change them, but while those laws are in place the above choices are all you have. Which you do is really a cost benefit thing.
- 300bps 13y ago
  If an American friend told you he was about to go to jail for a year for selling drugs OP and his girlfriend face 8 years in jail for posting a picture of themselves eating pork on Facebook. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/18/sex-bloggers-could-face-years-in-prison-for-posting-facebook-photo-that-infuriated-malaysian-muslims/ http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/18/sex-bloggers-coul...
  - shubb 13y ago
    8 years is a long time - a lot more than ~2 which is what I'd assumed. Given the circumstances Op may find running away the best option.
  - bmelton 13y ago
    Not that it changes the ridiculousness of the matter at all, but I think their sex blog also factors in to the persecution.
- pessimizer 13y ago
  >If an American friend told you he was about to go to jail for a year for selling drugs, and you felt it was unfair, would you tell him to flee? For a year? I'd tell him to stay. For 4-5 years, or 10-15? Run if you can come up with any way to. This particular case also revolves around religious freedom, so it may be possible to get refugee status somewhere, esp. being high-skilled and entrepreneurial.

lettergram 13y ago

Depends.. I'd run if I had to spend 8 years in prison for example