Iran Arrests 17 Youths For Water Fight
Updated: Sunday, 07 Aug 2011, 9:35 AM EDT
(NewsCore) - TEHRAN -- Iranian police arrested 17 boys and girls over a water fight at a seaside park in the Islamic Republic's south, a senior judicial official said Sunday.
"Seventeen young boys and girls who were squirting water at each other were arrested on Friday in one of the beach parks" in the city of Bandar Abbas, Homozgan province's justice chief Ali Alia said, quoted by ISNA news agency.
Alia added that "five were immediately let go" and that the rest were released on bail Sunday but could face sentences for publicly committing an "act forbidden" by Islam and "insulting police officers."
On July 29, several hundred youths took part in a large-scale water battle using water guns and empty bottles at Ab-o-Atash (Water and Fire) park in central Tehran after organizing the event on Facebook and through text messages.
Ten of them were arrested as photos of the event emerged on social networking websites and eventually made their way into the media but were released Saturday on bail, the Shargh newspaper reported Sunday.
Officials and conservative media denounced the event in which, according to circulated photos, soaked boys and girls -- some with their mandatory hijabs askew -- attacked each other with water pistols in the heat-weary capital.
By law, the hijab is obligatory for all women in Iran.
General Ahmad Rouzbahani, the head of the morality police, warned recently in a television appearance that police forces, in accordance with the law, "will act forcefully against this type of action and will not allow such events to happen in public places, or anywhere throughout the country."
Copyright 2011 AFP. All rights reserved.
"Seventeen young boys and girls who were squirting water at each other were arrested on Friday in one of the beach parks" in the city of Bandar Abbas, Homozgan province's justice chief Ali Alia said, quoted by ISNA news agency.
Alia added that "five were immediately let go" and that the rest were released on bail Sunday but could face sentences for publicly committing an "act forbidden" by Islam and "insulting police officers."
On July 29, several hundred youths took part in a large-scale water battle using water guns and empty bottles at Ab-o-Atash (Water and Fire) park in central Tehran after organizing the event on Facebook and through text messages.
Ten of them were arrested as photos of the event emerged on social networking websites and eventually made their way into the media but were released Saturday on bail, the Shargh newspaper reported Sunday.
Officials and conservative media denounced the event in which, according to circulated photos, soaked boys and girls -- some with their mandatory hijabs askew -- attacked each other with water pistols in the heat-weary capital.
By law, the hijab is obligatory for all women in Iran.
General Ahmad Rouzbahani, the head of the morality police, warned recently in a television appearance that police forces, in accordance with the law, "will act forcefully against this type of action and will not allow such events to happen in public places, or anywhere throughout the country."
Copyright 2011 AFP. All rights reserved.
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Ok, Couple of things:
1. I read things like this and I want to get down on my hands and knees and thank GOD for allowing me live in the best country in the world.
2. I would be really bad at being Iranian because my mandatory hijab would CONSTANTLY be 'askew'. Seriously. If a woman WANTS to wear it, cool, but we all know they aren't given that choice.
3. Hmmmmm. "The Morality Police".....WHAT?! A country full of violence, hatred for so many, and that treats women as second class citizens has something called "morality police"?? I'm having a tough time wrapping my weak little woman's mind around that. That country has FAR bigger issues than children having water fights in the hot summer months. Something tells me that THEIR idea of morality and OUR idea of morality might be slightly different.
4. Can you even imagine the chaos that must ensue in Iran when a snowball fight breaks out? Wait, does it even snow in Iran? I don't care enough to Google that right now.....
-KC Jones
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