Parkour athlete Alireza Japalaghy kisses an unidentified one in a video posted on Instagram that had her arrested through the Iranian government for violating the codes of public decency.
Screenshot of radio France Internaional video on YouTube
Alireza Japalaghy’s legal upheaval began after a 44-second video clip he posted on Instagram in May.
The videos of the 28-year-old parkour athlete are virtual tours of Iran’s urban landscapes and ancient sites, accompanied by a space music soundtrack. It turns in front of the street markets; He changes the garments while suspended on the rooftops and stands on the arrow of a suburban bridge like a character in a video game.
But a video put him in trouble with the Iranian government for violating the codes of public decency, forcing him to escape to Turkey. Human rights activists are involved in extradition to Iran.
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The video shows Japalaghy and an unidentified woman kissing in various locations: in front of the Tehran skyline, on a roof and hanging upside down from a building. He’s shirtless. She wears a sports bra, her ponytail went through the buckle of a baseball cap.
In Iran, it is contrary to public codes of decency for women to appear in public without a hijab, and public displays of affection among unmarried people are allowed.
Japalaghy and his spouse were arrested in Iran after the video was made public. The Iranian government claimed that either had committed “vulgar acts.”
Japalaghy was then released on bail and went to Turkey. However, your spouse’s prestige remains unclear.
In interviews before his arrest in Iran, Japalaghy exuded the simple confidence of a young athlete at the forefront of Iran’s growing obsession with parkour. He spoke of his dreams of running in Hollywood and his teenage fights after the mysterious disappearance of his father, an anti-narcotics agent, in 2010.
Activists recommend that it was a recent public through Japalaghy about his father’s disappearance that led to the arrest.
“There are a lot of other people who do worse on Instagram,” his brother said in a video posted afterwards. “I don’t understand why a sports video clip involves so many stories.”
Japalaghy had posted similar clips in the past, but random application of public decency codes can make it difficult to wait for what will lead to jail.
Other arrested Instagram users come with women who posted pictures of themselves dressed in a headscarf and dancing in a room. A couple of popular influential people managed to flee the country before being sentenced in absentia to criminal terms and public scouring terms for “propaganda opposed to the regime” and “spread of ethical corruption.”
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“One of the biggest upheavals with Iran’s public decency is that they are vaguely explained deliberately and open to interpretation through law enforcement, through the judiciary,” said Tara Sepehri Far of Human Rights Watch.
“Increasingly, Iranians are joining social media, they are acting on social media,” Far said. “But now [the government] is social media as a public space. So there is a lost war between the government and the people.”
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Japalaghy fled to Turkey, where he was arrested through Turkish police.
In a video released on June 30 from a police van, he removed a surgical mask from his face to reveal his identity and then spoke in Farsi.
کاش …. ? #parkour #parkourlife #roofjump #parkourfail #freestyle #alirezajapalaghy #freerunning @alireza_japallaghy …. چپلقی #parkourgirl ””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””’
A shared post through Alireza Japalaghy (@alireza_japallaghy) on June 30, 2020 at 12:21 p.m. Pdt
“I crossed the border,” he says. “I stopped through the army and went to the gendarmerie, but I don’t know where they’re taking me.”
Independent Iranian journalist Aida Ghajar reports that Japalaghy is being held at a moving centre near Van, a town near the Turkey-Iran border.
Human rights defenders will now be sent back to Iran.
“It turns out something new is happening. Array.. [The Iranian authorities] are looking to bring others home and face their pain.
“It turns out something new is happening,” said Sanam Vakil, deputy director of the Middle East North Africa program at Chatham House. “[The Iranian authorities] seek to bring others home and face their pain.”
“Recently, in the last 3 or 4 years, Iranian refugees have had more with the Turkish government than before,” said Moein Khanzaeli, an Iranian lawyer who now lives in Sweden.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan presents himself as a protector of refugees; Turkey welcomes more asylum seekers than any other country in the world. In his speeches, Erdogan says evictions are in the interest of national security.
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But analysts point to the recent case of two young Iranians who tried to asylum in Turkey after taking part in popular protests in Iran triggered by emerging fuel last November.
“They tried to seek political asylum in Turkey. And they were dazzlingly in a taxi, and then the taxi’s driving force passed them on to the Turkish authorities, turned them into a police force,” said Sina Toossi, an Iranian analyst. National Council of the United States.
The main points were defined last month in a report through the Human Rights Activists News Agency, an Iranian civil society group. The protesters were deported to Iran, where they were sentenced to death by the country’s court.
“I mean it’s worrying, ” said Toossi. “Given this record, Array … those other two young women sentenced to execution, others, the influencers of Instagram have been prosecuted through Iran internationally. Turkey does not seem to be the safest position for it.”
As for Japalaghy, his fate is unknown in the Van deportation camp. According to COVID-19 protocols, Turkey can keep Japalaghy in quarantine and detention for at least 14 days.
Editor’s note: Bijan Sabbagh the translation of this story.
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