NCRI – A mix party of 20 men and women was raided by the mullahs' State Security Forces – mullahs' suppressive police – for second consecutive month in the holy city of Mashhad, the state-run daily Qods reported on Monday.
In the early evening hours of Sunday the SSF agents acted on a lead and attacked a party in a garden in Shandiz — a famous summer resort of Mashhad, Qods added. Twelve men and eight women were arrested and taken away by the police.
All were turned over to the branch 802 of the mullahs' local judiciary where they were reined by an on duty judge and sent to jail.
On October 8, the SSF arrested 44 people in another party in Mashhad but in a different area of the city.
Attacking parties has been a longtime practice under the mullahs' rule in Iran.
In an incident of the kind 70 were arrested in the southern city of Shiraz on July 19. Again, on April 15, the semi-official daily Jomhouri-Islami 67 youths were arrested in mixed-gender party in northern Tehran.
In that incident SSF agents were dispatched to the house where the party was already in progress in Moqadas-Ardibily Street, according to eyewitness accounts.
