Tehran, AFP, May 28, 2016 – The fundamentalist regime of Iran has arrested eight people for producing music videos, according to the AFP citing Tehran prosecutor general Abbas Jafarabadi telling the judiciary’s news agency Mizan Online on Saturday.
Their charges will be reviewed by the special court of culture and media, he added.
Dozens of Farsi-language television channels are broadcast on satellite, all based outside Iran. Some air news programs while others show only music videos, television series and movies.
Some entertainment channels have become very popular in the country in recent years despite being banned inside the Islamic republic.
The arrests come only days after more than 30 students who partied at a graduation ceremony in northern Iran were arrested and given 99 lashes each for violating the Islamic republic’s morality code.
Arrests based on a verity of bogus reasons have recently been reported across Iran by local media.
The crackdown is increasing despite the regime’s promise of opening society following the nuclear deal with the West.
The head of the Tehran police department announced in April the recruitment of 7,000 plainclothes police in the capital to fight against “immorality”.
The officers are responsible for monitoring “noise, harassment of women and women’s lack of Islamic veil inside cars,” he said.