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I heard it was The Dougie that got them in trouble.
The Guardian is authwalled. To summarize:
An engaged couple, who were popular on Instagram, posted a video of themselves dancing together in public, and the woman did not have a head covering. Dancing in public is forbidden. A woman dancing with a man in public is especially forbidden. The woman not covering her head in public is forbidden. Oh, and they did this dance in front of a national landmark which is a symbol of the regime and whose designer lives in exile because his religion is forbidden. The name of the landmark? The Freedom (Azadi) Tower, of course.
The couple was convicted without access to lawyers and bail was denied. The charges were “encouraging corruption and public prostitution” and “gathering with the intention of disrupting national security”.
The woman was sent to Iran's squalid, overcrowded prison for women. >

What a piece of shit regime. This is no way to live. I hope the people of Iran overthrow them and charge them with every death and abuse under their watch. Enjoy 4000 years in prison, fuckers. >

If the people of Iran overthrow the government there will be no prison time for anyone. >

There's got to be times if you're running a theocracy when you must think, "What the fuck are we doing?" >

I'll go out on a limb and say they probably don't have a second thought about any of the crazy shit they do. >

No, they do. They think "this is awesome!" 
Look at DeSantis. He's an intelligent man. He's charging teachers with felonies for teaching students that gay people exist because he likes it. Running a dictatorial regime is fun for him. >

You mean the guy who oversaw torture at Gitmo enjoys hurting people? Whoddathunkit? >

10 Years in prison for expressing love and joy. It's amazing how primitive those religious zealots can be.
I don't want to, but I can't help hating the scumbags in power in Iran. >

Tehran: sounds like a great place to not live. >

If you're interested in not living, the Iranian government can help you with that! >

Crap like this is why the world needs to stop treating religion as some thing you can’t criticize. Fuck every part of this. These people are losing an entire decade of their lives, simply for having fun, because some religious piece of shit says so. >

🎶Everybody cut footloose🎶 >

Straight to jail. >

Ridiculous. 10 years for daring to be joyous. What a way to run a country. >

There is no god here.. religion is a cancer used by powerful men to manipulate the masses. >

These cultures hate women. >

Men dance only with men. Women dance only with women. Yet, you don't hear about gay pride parades in the Arab world. >

That because the whole portion of that area of the earth is mainly inhabited by the most hypocritical religious group in modern times. Did you expect a bunch of logic, reasoning, tolerance and understanding ? >


Haghighi was not wearing a headscarf, in defiance of Iran’s strict rules. Women are also not allowed to dance in public, let alone with a man.

I was wondering how what they did was illegal because I forgot briefly that Iran is a backwoods country that would put some countries in the medieval times blush >

I mean, they are lucky. Surprised they weren’t tortured and executed. >

Why do people keep saying, that we have to respect their culture ? >

Who keeps telling you to respect the Iranian government?
Or if that's not who you mean by "their", who do you mean? >

They are seriously taking on tiktok. >

Ironic. Iran forces ultra radical, orthodox islam on the citizens for basically one sole reason - to increase the birth rate, since Iran is 60% ethnic Persians and 40% Kurds, Azeris and Arabs who hate the Persians, reproduce at a faster rate and will start a civil war the minute they think they have a chance of winning. And yet Persians in Iran have one of the lowest fertility rates in the entire world. Iran is doomed to dissolve as a state within our own lifetime because of this.
Meanwhile, North Korea which has been atheist only for generations, has a birthrate that is perfectly fine. >

More of the greatness of Islam on display!! >

Pissing off already pissed off citizens is a bold strategy, Cotton. >

But we can't criticize other's religion  and culture / tradition. LMAO. >

I’d go to jail too. I’m a lousy dancer. >

WTF. Jail the people who jailed them! >

We apologize for the fault in the freedom. Those responsible for jailing the people who have just been jailed, have been jailed >

Damn, all over some pieces of paper or some sky fairy ?