MOSCOW, Oct 26 Missing Spanish football fan Santiago Sanchez arrested in Iranian city Sekkeze, Iran International reports. The fan planned to walk to Qatar in time for the start of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, the first match of which will take place on November 20. Earlier, the media reported that communication between him and his relatives was cut off on October 2, when he was in Iran, 5 kilometers from the border with Iraq.
"Santiago Sanchez, a football fan from Spain, who disappeared three weeks ago after entering Iran, was arrested in the city of Sekkeze at the grave of Mahsa Amini. They say that he was taken along with an interpreter, and then transported to Tehran", Iran International said.
On September 13, Amini was detained in Tehran by the vice police and sent for an explanatory conversation to one of the Faraj centers belonging to the police department and military intelligence. In this center, the girl had a heart attack, after which she was immediately taken to the hospital. She died three days later. Residents blamed the vice police for the death of Mahsa. People in different cities of the country began to gather on the streets to protest. Videos have been posted on social media showing girls cutting off their hair and burning a hijab or «Rusari» headscarf, which, according to law, must cover the head of an Iranian woman. The unrest in Iran has been going on for more than a month.