NCRI – The Iranian regime’s paramilitary Basij in north-eastern Iran broke up two mixed-gender parties within 72 hours last week, detaining 70 people.
The head of the fundamentalist Basij in Nishapur precinct, Ali-Akbar Hosseini, announced that his forces were alerted to a so-called “obscene party” in the city. During the raid, 14 boys and 14 girls were arrested and transferred to a local police station.
A second party was raided last Friday, May 20, leading to the arrest of over 40 participants, Hosseini told the state-run Fars news agency on Saturday, May 21.
Mixed-gender partying has been illegal in Iran since the mullahs came to power in 1979. However, many continue to flout the risk of imprisonment and corporal punishment to continue their revelry.
