Iranian girls who removed their headscarves at skateboard event arrestedIranian police have arrested several teenage girls for not wearing headscarves at a skateboarding day along with some of the event’s organisers in the southern city of Shiraz, state media reported Friday.
A number of girls ‘removed their hijab at the end of the sports event without observing the religious considerations and legal norms’, state news agency IRNA quoted Shiraz police chief Faraj Shojaee as saying.
Five people accused of organising the event – where dozens of teenagers also mixed freely contravening strict Islamic guidelines – have been detained. ‘With the coordination of the judiciary, a number of perpetrators and people related to this gathering were identified and arrested on Thursday,’ Shojaee said.
A video purporting to show Tuesday’s ‘Go Skateboarding Day‘ event on Chamran Boulevard in Shiraz went viral in Iran on social media, prompting anger among conservative religious authorities in a country where the wearing of a Muslim hijab is mandatory for all women and teenage girls. ‘Holding any mixed sports or non-sports gathering without observing the religious and legal norms is prohibited… and the organisers will be dealt with according to the law,’ Shojaee added.