""Despite previous warnings regarding the need to comply with the country's current laws and regulations, as well as religious, customary, and professional principles...the event was held in a way that violated public decency," the judiciary's Mizan news outlet quoted the local prosecutor's office as saying. "Considering the violations that occurred and based on the laws and regulations, a criminal case has been filed against the officials and agents organizing this event," the report added. Mizan said that "two of the main organizers of the competition were arrested on warrants.""
""One of those arrested is an official in the Kish free zone, and the other works for the private company that organized the race," it added. The report did not make clear if the two had been jailed, although it said "judicial supervision" had been ordered for them. It was also not immediately clear how many women defied the hijab laws. The marathon was held a day earlier on the southwestern Iranian island of Kish, attracting some 5,000 participants in separate men's and women's races."
Two organizers of a Kish island marathon were arrested after some women competed without wearing the mandatory hijab. Authorities said the event violated public decency despite prior warnings to comply with laws and religious, customary, and professional principles. A criminal case was filed against the event officials and agents, and judicial supervision was ordered for the arrested organizers, one from the Kish free zone and one from the private organizing company. The marathon drew about 5,000 participants in separate men's and women's races. The hijab has been compulsory in Iran since 1979 and is enforced by morality authorities amid growing public defiance.
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