{"id":4898,"date":"2016-06-05T00:51:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T05:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=4898"},"modified":"2016-06-05T00:51:35","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T05:51:35","slug":"iran-70-people-arrested-in-tehran-for-attending-a-mixed-gender-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/2016\/06\/05\/iran-70-people-arrested-in-tehran-for-attending-a-mixed-gender-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: 70 people arrested in Tehran for attending a mixed-gender party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20166419627855487461_The-youths-were-arrested-by-the-regimes-police-.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-4899 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20166419627855487461_The-youths-were-arrested-by-the-regimes-police--300x168.jpg\" alt=\"20166419627855487461_The-youths-were-arrested-by-the-regimes-police-\" width=\"397\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20166419627855487461_The-youths-were-arrested-by-the-regimes-police--300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20166419627855487461_The-youths-were-arrested-by-the-regimes-police-.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 397px) 100vw, 397px\" \/><\/a>Iranian government official media reported on Friday,3 June 2016 that mullahs&#8217; regime on Thursday arrested more than 70 young men and women in Tehran for taking part in a mixed-gender party at a restaurant.<br \/>\nThe youths were arrested by the regime&#8217;s police during a raid on a restaurant in the Iranian capital\u2019s northern Farahzad district, the state-run ILNA news agency reported.<br \/>\nEarlier this week, the Iranian regime&#8217;s suppressive state security forces (police) in Bandar Abbas, southern Iran, raided a mixed-gender party, arresting 62 people and transferring them to prison, according to state media.<br \/>\nThe state-run Shahrvand daily wrote on June 2 that 23 men and 39 women, who were caught dancing and partying, were arrested in the raid which was carried out on Sunday, May 29.<br \/>\nSimilar raids have been carried out in Iran in recent days.<br \/>\nMore than two dozen young Iranian men and women were arrested last weekend by the mullahs&#8217; regime for participating in a mixed-gender party in Mashhad, north-east Iran.<br \/>\nThe 29 youngsters were rounded up by the regime&#8217;s police at a party on the evening of May 28 at a villa near the Danesh Junction in Mashhad.<br \/>\nThe state-run Rokna news agency reported that altogether 15 young men and 14 young women were arrested at the party and were taken to the regime&#8217;s court in District 6 of Mashhad on Sunday to face prosecution.<br \/>\nSome 35 young men and women were flogged last week for taking part in a mixed-gender party after their graduation ceremony near Qazvin, some 140 kilometers northwest of the Iranian capital Tehran, the regime&#8217;s Prosecutor in the city said on May 26.<br \/>\nIsmaeil Sadeqi Niaraki, a notorious mullah, said a special court session was held after all the young men and women at the party were rounded up, the Mizan news agency, affiliated to the fundamentalist regime&#8217;s judiciary, reported on May 26.<br \/>\n&#8216;After we received information that a large number of men and women were mingling in a villa in the suburbs of Qazvin &#8230; all the participants at the party were arrested,&#8217; he said.<br \/>\nNiaraki added that the following morning every one of those detained received 99 lashes as punishment by the so-called &#8216;Morality Police.&#8217;<br \/>\nAccording to Niaraki, given the social significance of mixed-gender partying, &#8216;this once again required a firm response by the judiciary in quickly reviewing and implementing the law.&#8217;<br \/>\n&#8216;Thanks God that the police questioning, investigation, court hearing, verdict and implementation of the punishment all took place in less than 24 hours,&#8217; Niaraki added.<br \/>\nThe regime\u2019s prosecutor claimed that the judiciary would not tolerate the actions of \u201claw-breakers who use excuses such as freedom and having fun in birthday parties and graduation ceremonies.\u201d<br \/>\nHe warned the youths that they should be careful about their conduct \u201csince being arrested in mixed-gender parties and receiving sentences is a crime and would create problems for their future education and employment.\u201d<br \/>\nLast month, the Iranian regime\u2019s paramilitary Basij in north-eastern Iran broke up two mixed-gender parties within 72 hours, detaining 70 people.<br \/>\nThe head of the fundamentalist Basij in Nishapur precinct, Ali-Akbar Hosseini, announced that his forces were alerted to a so-called \u201cobscene party\u201d in the city. During the raid, 14 boys and 14 girls were arrested and transferred to a local police station.<br \/>\nA second party was raided on May 20, leading to the arrest of over 40 participants, Hosseini told the state-run Fars news agency on May 21.<br \/>\n<strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mojahedin.org\/eventsen\/82\" target=\"_blank\"> NCRI <\/a>, 4 June 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Iranian government official media reported on Friday,3 June 2016 that mullahs&#8217; regime on Thursday arrested more than 70 young men and women in Tehran for <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/2016\/06\/05\/iran-70-people-arrested-in-tehran-for-attending-a-mixed-gender-party\/\" title=\"Iran: 70 people arrested in Tehran for attending a mixed-gender party\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4900,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898\/revisions\/4900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}