Iran's first female boxer 'fears arrest'

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Sadaf Khadem: Iranian female boxer halts return over arrest fears

- an Iranian-born former World Boxing Association champion who also serves as an adviser to the French sports minister - she said they were told that warrants had been issued for their arrest.

"I was fighting in a legally approved match, in France. But as I was wearing shorts and a T-shirt, which is completely normal in the eyes of the entire world, I confounded the rules of my country," she told the L'Equipe newspaper.A spokesman for the Iranian embassy in Paris told Reuters news agency on Wednesday that he could not comment on whether Khadem faced arrest in Iran or on her decision not to return to Iran.

Under Iranian law, women and girls as young as nine years old who are seen in public without a headscarf can be punished with a prison sentence of between 10 days and two months, or a cash fine.Until recently, Khadem would not have been permitted to take part in an official boxing match wearing a hijab or a full body form fitting uniform for religious regions. But

 

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Fun fact: France also have dress code laws..

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Backwards government in Iran, I feel so sorry for the people who have to live under such conditions.

Boxing in burqas, that would be interesting. I suppose an Iranian version of female mud wrestling.

FFS. Grow up, Iran.

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