August 22, 2016
A series of raids on mixed-gender parties, which are illegal in Iran, has led to the arrest of more than 80 young people this week.
In Shiraz, a city in southern Iran, 63 young men and women were arrested in two separate raids on parties that were deemed “unlawful” by the Iranian state.
“After receiving reports about two parties held in the middle of the night in north-east Shiraz, a joint operation was carried out by the police and another security agency and 63 half-naked boys and girls were arrested,” Colonel Yousef Malek-Zadeh, commander of Iran’s State Security Forces in Shiraz said on Friday, August 19. Hist statement was reprinted on Friday by the Tasnim news agency, affiliated to the regime’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Quds Force.
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Also see:
- "Dozens arrested in swoops on mixed-gender parties in Iran," NCRI August 20, 2016
- "Iran’s crackdown on 'freedom and having fun,'"Iran Focus August 21, 2016
