{"id":8819,"date":"2025-12-12T16:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/two-marathon-organisers-arrested-in-iran-for-allowing-women-to-compete-without-veils\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T16:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:50:07","slug":"two-marathon-organisers-arrested-in-iran-for-allowing-women-to-compete-without-veils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/two-marathon-organisers-arrested-in-iran-for-allowing-women-to-compete-without-veils\/","title":{"rendered":"Two marathon organisers arrested in Iran for allowing women to compete without veils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/s.france24.com\/media\/display\/5dbb26ec-d2b4-11f0-a081-005056bf30b7\/w:1024\/p:16x9\/marathon-kish-3.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><br \/>Two people who organised a marathon in Iran where a number of women athletes competed without wearing veils have been arrested, the Islamic republic&#8217;s judiciary said Saturday. While women in Iran are required by law to cover their hair in public, the law&#8217;s enforcement has become more sporadic since the country was swept by mass protests in 2022.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/middle-east\/20251206-two-marathon-organisers-arrested-in-iran-for-allowing-women-to-compete-without-veils\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two people who organised a marathon in Iran where a number of women athletes competed without wearing veils have been arrested, the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}