In line with the mullahs’ plan to fight against ‘thugs’ and ‘those disrupting the public security and order in Tehran,’ dozens were arrested and paraded in Tehran Tajrish Square.
The victims arrested on Wednesday and paraded on the same day.
Such degrading punishments are systematically used in Iran by the police for petty “crimes” in order to embarrass and humiliate the youth in their neighborhood.
The victims are usually paraded with a sign hanged from their neck.
Last April, three young men were paraded in women’s clothing through the Iranian city of Mehran after being charged with robbery and drug dealing.
A group of women protested the ‘offensive’ decision by a judge saying the sentence was degrading to women, and particularly Kurdish women, as one prisoner was forced to wear a traditional female Kurdish outfit as paraded in a Kurdish city.