Six charged with dancing and failing to wear proper hijab after posting clips on social media, say Revolutionary GuardsFour boys and two girls have been arrested in Iran for teaching “western” dance moves including Zumba, a Colombian fitness routine, a Revolutionary Guards commander has said. “The members of a network teaching and filming western dances have been identified and arrested,” Hamid Damghani, a commander in Shahroud, north-east Iran, was quoted by the news website Jamejam Online as saying. “The team attracted boys and girls, taught them western dances and published their video clips on social media apps like Telegram and Instagram. “The promotion and teaching of dancing in the name of sport in women’s gyms is a serious issue,” Damghani said. In 2014, seven young Iranians were arrested for dancing to Pharrell Williams’s hit Happy in a homemade video that went viral on the internet.

Source: The Guardian August 09, 2017 16:48 UTC