Women 'arrested for riding bicycles' in Iran and made to sign pledge never to cycle in public again

A group of women has reportedly been arrested for riding bicycles in Iran and made to sign pledges not to repeat the “violation”.

They were planning to participate in a cycling event in the north-western city of Marivan when police told them a new government directive had barred women riding bicycles in public.

The opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran said officers ordered them to sign written pledges vowing not to repeat the “unlawful violation” and took several women who protested into custody............http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/women-arrested-for-riding-bicycles-in-iran-and-made-to-sign-pledge-never-to-cycle-in-public-again-a7159761.html

Islamic state of Iran arrests 150 children for attending MIXED SEX birthday party

UP TO 150 teenage boys and girls have been arrested by police in Iran in the latest raid to crackdown on youngsters attending mixed gender events.


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Up to 150 young men and women were arrested and could be flogged
The young Iranians were detained following a raid by police on a garden in Islamshahr, near the capital city of Tehran, after attending a birthday party.

The arrests are the latest in a series of raids across the strict Islamic country, including one on a graduation party that led to 30 students receiving 99 lashes.

Colonel Mohsen Khancherli, police commander, said his officers will now be policing gardens as the summer holidays continue.....http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/693341/Iran-police-arrests-teens-mixed-gender-party-human-rights

150 boys and girls arrested near Iran capital for attending mixed-gender party

NCRI - Iran's fundamentalist regime arrested 150 boys and girls for attending a mixed-gender birthday party near the capital Tehran, the regime’s local police commander said on Monday.

The arrests took place at an overnight party in a garden in the vicinity of Islamshahr, south-west of Tehran, according to Colonel Mohsen Khancherli, the regime's police commander for the west of Tehran Province.

Khancherli told the Tasnim news agency, affiliated to the regime's terrorist Revolutionary Guards Quds Force, on Monday (July 25): "After we obtained a report about a mixed-gender party in a garden in the vicinity of Islamshahr in the west of Tehran Province, an operation was carried out by the police and another organization, leading to the arrest of dozens of boys and girls."

"Some 150 boys and girls had gathered at the mixed-gender party under the guise of a birthday party in this garden which is situated next to a studio where unlawful music was produced and recorded. Upon arrival of the police, all those present were arrested and sent before the judiciary," he said......http://www.ncr-iran.org/en/news/human-rights/20764-150-boys-and-girls-arrested-near-iran-capital-for-attending-mixed-gender-party