Iranian police briefly detained a number of unidentified top-tier soccer gamers in a raid on a celebration on New Yr’s Eve the place alcohol was served in violation of an Islamic ban, Iranian media have reported.
Mingling between sexes exterior marriage and ingesting alcohol are banned beneath Iran’s Islamic legal guidelines. Social restrictions are amongst points that prompted mass unrest in current months, following the dying in custody of Mahsa Amini, a girl accused of violating the nation’s strict costume code.
The state-affiliated information company Tasnim stated a number of lively gamers and former members of an unidentified prime Tehran soccer membership had been detained on the get together east of the capital.
“A number of the gamers had been in an irregular state on account of alcohol consumption,” Tasnim reported, with out giving additional particulars.
The YJC information company, one other outstanding state-affiliated information outlet, stated the gathering was a birthday celebration, and added that every one these detained had been launched besides one particular person, who isn’t a soccer participant.
Fars information company, which can be state-affiliated, cited a prosecutor as saying a case had been filed towards those that had been detained, and particulars can be launched later.
There was no fast remark from Iran’s soccer federation.
