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Associated Press
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (AP) —Iran's state media organized a skateboarding event on Friday where dozens of teens were free to mix and girls didn't wear head scarves. Authorities reportedly detained five people for doing so.
A video of "Go Skateboarding Day" on a city boulevard in southern Schillers has become a hot topic on social media among conservative religious authorities in countries where Muslim hijab is required to be worn. Caused anger. All women and teenage girls.
According to state television reports, the state's judiciary is investigating the case, and the state-owned IRNA news agency is a Western-style teenager. It was reported that a rally against the gathering would be held later. Friday prayer in Shiraz.
Iran is a theocracy in which clerics control almost every lever of power and control every aspect of life. They have long regarded such activities as part of the "soft war" against Islamic republic by the West.
Iranian law prohibits women from going public without covering their hair with a hijab. This is a strict dress code imposed after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
