Iran police arrest 17 youths over seaside water fight

IRANIAN police arrested 17 boys and girls over a water fight at a seaside park in the Islamic republic’s south, a senior judicial official has said.

“Seventeen young boys and girls who were squirting water at each other were arrested in one of the beach parks” in the city of Bandar Abbas, Homozgan province’s justice chief Ali Alia said.

They could face sentences for publicly committing an “act forbidden” (haram) by Islam as well as “insulting police officers”.