Iran’s ‘Blue Girl’ Wanted to Watch a Soccer Match. She Died Pursuing Her Dream.
In an exception to the ban against women attending sports events, Iranian women, most of them family of players, were permitted to watch a soccer match between Iran and Bolivia at the Azadi Stadium in Tehran, in 2018./ Her dream was to watch a soccer match from a stadium in Iran, where women are barred from attending most sports events. So Sahar Khodayari, 29, sneaked into Azadi Stadium, Tehran’s main sporting venue. But she was arrested. Sentenced to six months in prison, she set herself on fire in front of the courthouse on Sept. 2. She ...
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