Prosecutor Morteza Tahmasabi of the city of Damavand announced Sunday that Iranian Police arrested on Saturday night several soccer players who attended a mixed party in the city, 74 kilometers east of Iran’s capital Tehran.
In a brief statement carried by Mehr news agency, the prosecutor announced that he will press charges against the people who attended the party, whose identities and numbers are not known at the moment, as well as the details of their arrests.
These arrests come in the context of the protests that have erupted in Iran following the death of the young Mahsa Amini, demonstrations that have also moved to the Iranian sports scene, with the recent case of the soccer player Amir Nasr Azadani.
The 26-year-old former Rah-Ahan, Tractor and Gol-e Rayhan player was charged by the Iranian regime with a crime called ‘moharebeh’, i.e. ‘enmity against God’. This crime carries execution by hanging, a penalty already suffered by the young Mohsen Shekari and the fighter Majid Reza Rahnavard, hanged in public in Mashad on the same charges as Amir Nasr-Azadani, after a trial without guarantees.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
