More than 700 prisoners were released in Iran on Monday following the Iranian national team’s victory over Wales on Friday in a match of the second day of Group B of the World Cup in Qatar.
The decision was announced this Monday by the agency to the Iranian judicial authority, which recalls that, after losing 2-6 to England in the first round, the Iranian team, coached by Portuguese Carlos Queirós, left the country of Wales won 2-0 and will meet the United States on Tuesday.
In case of victory, Iran will qualify for the round of 16 of the competition.
“Following a special order issued by the head of the judiciary following the victory of the national football team […] to that of Wales, 709 prisoners were released from various prisons in the country”specifies the agency.
According to IRNA are among those who have been released “some people arrested during the latest events”added IRNA without giving further details.
By “events,” the news agency refers to the protests sparked by the September 16 death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd who died three years after being detained by vice squad for allegedly violating the country’s strict rules . dress code due to incorrect wearing of the hijab or Islamic veil.
Tehran, which regards most demonstrations as “riots”, accuses “foreign forces” of being behind the protest movement with the intent to destabilize the Islamic Republic.
At least 426 people have been killed and more than 17,400 arrested since the protests began, according to Human Rights Activists in Iran, a group monitoring the ongoing protest movement, which has also killed at least 56 members of Iran’s security forces. .
Source: DN
