Sahar Khodayari’s parents would have preferred the 29-year old to watch her favourite football team on the television, but so great was her love for the sport that on March 12, the Iranian university graduate dressed up as a man and went to the stadium by herself – in defiance of an Islamic ban. The death of the “blue girl” — so called because of the colours of the Esteghlal football team she adored — has prompted outrage across Iran. It has renewed focus on the ban on female attendance at football games, a potent symbol for the restriction of women’s rights in the Islamic republic.
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