NCRI – Iran’s fundamentalist regime has expelled a group of 80 Afghan nationals who were arrested earlier this month while attending an Eid al-Fitr celebration in a village north-west of Tehran to mark the end of Ramadan.
Eid al-Fitr was celebrated in Iran on July 6. The 80 Afghan nationals were rounded up by the regime’s suppressive State Security Forces as they were “dancing” during a celebration in a village near the city of Qazvin, according to Bahman Ashayeri, the provincial governorate’s head of immigration.
“Given that those present at this party where travelling illegally in Qazvin Province, following the necessary coordinations they were transferred to Asgarabad Prison in Varamin and were deported from the country,” the state-run ISNA news agency quoted Ashayeri as saying on Sunday, July 17.
Some 35 young men and women were flogged in May for taking part in a mixed-gender party after their graduation ceremony near Qazvin city, some 140 kilometers northwest of the Iranian capital Tehran, the regime’s Prosecutor in the city said on May 26.
Ismaeil 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’s judiciary, reported on May 26.
“After we received information that a large number of men and women were mingling in a villa in the suburbs of Qazvin … all the participants at the party were arrested,” he said.
Niaraki added that the following morning every one of those detained received 99 lashes as punishment by the so-called ‘Morality Police.’
According to Niaraki, given the social significance of mixed-gender partying, “this once again required a firm response by the judiciary in quickly reviewing and implementing the law.”
“Thanks God that the police questioning, investigation, court hearing, verdict and implementation of the punishment all took place in less than 24 hours,” Niaraki added.
The regime’s prosecutor claimed that the judiciary would not tolerate the actions of “law-breakers who use excuses such as freedom and having fun in birthday parties and graduation ceremonies.”
Similar raids have been carried out on mixed-gender parties across Iran in recent weeks.
