{"id":104078,"date":"2022-06-20T06:24:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T11:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=104078"},"modified":"2022-06-20T06:24:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T11:24:36","slug":"120-partygoers-arrested-in-north-iran-state-media-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2022\/06\/20\/120-partygoers-arrested-in-north-iran-state-media-say\/","title":{"rendered":"120 Partygoers Arrested in North Iran, State Media Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dateline\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-104079 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Arrested-in-Mazandaran-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Arrested-in-Mazandaran-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Arrested-in-Mazandaran-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Arrested-in-Mazandaran.jpg 600w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Arrested-in-Mazandaran-24x16.jpg 24w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Arrested-in-Mazandaran-36x24.jpg 36w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Arrested-in-Mazandaran-48x32.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>VOA \u2014 TEHRAN, IRAN \u2014 <\/span>Police have arrested 120 people for breaking Iran&#8217;s segregation and morality rules at a party in the forest in the northern province of Mazandaran, state media reported Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Members of this illegal tour \u2026 were arrested by the morality police and a lawsuit has been filed,&#8221; provincial judiciary chief Mohammad Sadegh Akbari said, according to state broadcaster IRIB.<\/p>\n<p>Akbari said the &#8220;criminal acts&#8221; conducted in a forest near the city of Neka included &#8220;drinking alcohol, having illicit relationships, mixed-sex dancing and uncovering the hijab.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Iranians, seeking reprieve from the hustle and bustle of city life, often choose the north of the country as a destination for sightseeing and enjoying their free time.<\/p>\n<p>Under Islamic law in force in Iran since its 1979 revolution, women must wear a hijab that covers the head and neck while concealing the hair.<\/p>\n<p>But many women have pushed the boundaries over the past two decades by allowing their veils to slide back and reveal more hair, especially in Tehran and other major cities.<\/p>\n<p>Under Iranian law, only non-Muslim citizens are permitted to consume alcohol for religious purposes, while dancing with the opposite sex is forbidden.<\/p>\n<p>In April, Iranian police arrested three young women after a video online showed them dancing in a cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>Single-sex dancing is not a crime in Iran, but legal experts say that if someone dances in public or on the internet in a manner seen as offending public decency, the person can face prosecution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VOA \u2014 TEHRAN, IRAN \u2014 Police have arrested 120 people for breaking Iran&#8217;s segregation and morality rules at a party in the forest in the northern province of Mazandaran, state media reported Sunday. &#8220;Members of this illegal tour \u2026 were arrested by the morality police and a lawsuit has been filed,&#8221; provincial judiciary chief Mohammad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latests"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104078"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104081,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104078\/revisions\/104081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}