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Iran: 50 youths arrested in a southwestern city

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Iran: 50 youths arrested in a southwestern city

50 young men and women were arrested in the vicinity of Dezful city, southwestern Iran on charges of attending  mixed gender night party.
The ages of these individuals, 26 men and 24 women, runs from 20 to 25.
The young men and women were celebrating late on Sunday through early hours of Monday in a garden in the suburbs of Dezful when they were rounded up by the regime’s suppressive forces.
 “These people went to a garden in Dezful’s Shams-Abad district and began to celebrate in a mixed-gender and inappropriate fashion and the level of noise they made from having fun was to such an extent that the police were alerted,” the state-run Fars news agency reported.
They were arrested in the early hours on Monday and transferred to a police detention center.
All those detained had travelled from the nearby city of Ahwaz to join the garden party.
There has been a surge in the level of arrests of youths attending parties in Iran in recent months. Humiliating punishments and executions are among other violations of human rights in Iran since Hassan Rouhani took office at President in 2013. These rights abuses are aimed at spreading fear and intimidating the public, particularly the youth, to prevent social unrest.
The United Nations special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran has said that the general human rights situation, and in particular the repression of Iranian women and activists, has worsened since Rouhani became President.


More than 1,800 men and women have been executed in Iran during Rouhani’s tenure.
Iranian Resistance’s President-elect Maryam Rajavi in June described the unprecedented escalation of arbitrary, mass executions across Iran as an indication of the ruling regime’s despair in the face of irremediable social and political crises and its fear of broad-based social discontent.
Mrs. Rajavi said: “The international community’s silence and inaction over the systematic brutalities and abuses in Iran with the excuse of nuclear negotiations or else, tramples upon humanitarian values and human rights and further emboldens Iran’s religious fascist regime in slaughtering the populace and continuing its efforts to acquire the nuclear bomb and export fundamentalism and terrorism.”