Parading on donkey

Parading on donkey

Parading on a donkey is a traditional psychological punishment, consisting in a public humiliation.

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* In rural areas of India, it is intended to humiliate those guilty of minor crimes, and usually meted out by village elders or the local panchayat system of justice. The guilty person's head is often shaved and a garland of used footwear hung around their neck before they are paraded around the village or town on a donkey while mocked by onlookers.
* In the Islamic Republic of Iran, "Iranian authorities frequently parade youths, forced to sit backwards on donkeys, in their local neighbourhood so as to embarrass and humiliate them ... for petty crimes such as alcohol consumption, disregarding nightly curfews and disrespect towards security agents", [ [http://www.corpun.com/irj00511.html "Iran sentences three youth to flogging, jail"] , in: "Iran Focus", 21 November 2005 (illustrated)] or if the court orders so through several neighbourhoods; this may be a prelude to subsequent flogging and/or jail terms; in the Western Ancien régime tradition too (long continued, even in (ex)colonies), criminals were often transported publicly to the place of their ordeal.
* According to the Christian Gospels, Jesus of Nazareth entered Jerusalem on Palm Sunday riding a donkey and being welcomed with palms by the locals, thus fulfilling a Biblical prophecy. In this case, the donkey parade was not a punishment but a messianic action in a modest variation as a symbol of meekness.
* In the movie Kingdom of Heaven the defeated Christian king Guy of Lusignan is paraded before Jeruselem on a donkey by the muslim army commanded by Saladin.

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