Death of Iran’s “Blue Girl” Spotlights Senseless Ban on Women in Stadiums
مرگ "دختر آبی" ایران نور افکنی برای خروج از ممنوعیت زنان در ورزشگاه ها
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
No More Empty Promises: FIFA Should Call on Iran to Lift Ban Once and For All
September 10, 2019 – The death of Sahar Khodayari, a woman who set herself on fire in Tehran because she thought she would have to serve jail time for trying to watch a soccer match, has put the spotlight on the costs of a discriminatory state policy that Iranian women have been protesting for decades.
“This senseless tragedy should be a turning point for Iran’s government, which has been ignoring calls by its people to lift its discriminatory ban on women in stadiums, and is now facing the human costs of that policy,” said Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI).
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