Sara Khadem: Top Iran chess player exiled for refusing headscarf
Sara Khadem, now living in Spain, supports protesters back home but faces arrest if she returns to Iran. …
Women in Iran are required to wear headscarves in public, even when abroad. But a few are choosing not to, in support of the women and girls spearheading the protests inside the country, following the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in September. One of them, the climber Elnaz Rekabi, was forced to recant and it is unclear what her situation is, now that she is back in Iran.
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