Iranian students get 99 lashes for attending mixed graduation party

[Sally]

It's sad how the young people are treated in Iran. You can't even have fun at a private party.

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Iranian students get 99 lashes for attending mixed graduation party
Around 35 men and women were sentenced to 99 lashes each after being found 'dancing and jubliating'

• Caroline Mortimer
• @cjmortimer
• Friday 27 May 2016
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Women walking in Qazvin. Mixing between genders is severely restricted in theocractic Iran. (file photo) Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features


Iran has flogged dozens of students for attending a mixed-gender party after a graduation ceremony.


The young men and women who attended the party in a villa near Qazvin, 140km (87 miles) north-west of the capital Tehran, received 99 lashes as punishment by the country's notorious “Morality Police”.

Ismaeil Sadeqi Niaraki, a mullah who acts as the prosecutor in the city, told the Mizan news agency that a special court session was set up after the young people were discovered.


Mr Niaraki reportedly said on Thursday: "After we received information that a large number of men and women were mingling in a villa in the suburbs of Qazvin. All the participants at the party were arrested.



Around 35 men and women were sentenced to 99 lashes each after being found 'dancing and jubliating'

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