Two Iranian poets are facing 99 lashes each for shaking hands with people of the opposite sex in one of the latest examples of harsh punishments meted out against writers and artists by Iran’s judiciary, according to human rights advocates. The poets, Fatemeh Ekhtesari and Mehdi Musavi, have also both been sentenced to years in prison for “insulting the sacred” in their writings, a decision slammed by freedom of expression activists.(CNN.COM/photo:cnn.com)…[+]