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WOMEN, LIFE, FREEDOM MEGHAN BACKS IRANIAN PROTESTS

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October 19, 2022

A hero’s welcome for Iran climber who took off hijab

- Robert Dex

WOMEN, LIFE, FREEDOM MEGHAN BACKS IRANIAN PROTESTS

Meghan Markle at the Spotify headquarters in LA with Archewell president Mandana Dayan. Meghan gave a speech wearing a T-shirt bearing the words "women, life freedom" in Farsi as she gave her backing to campaigners in Iran.

THE Iranian climber who took off her hijab during a competition in South Korea returned to a hero’s welcome in Tehran today.

Videos shared online showed large crowds gathered early this morning at Imam Khomeini international airport to greet Elnaz Rekabi.

The videos showed the crowds chanting the 33-year-old’s name and calling her a hero. Rekabi’s appearance on Sunday in Seoul without the hijab headdress required of female athletes from the Islamic Republic came as protests sparked by the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini entered a fifth week. Ms Amini was detained by the country’s morality police for not wearing a hijab — and her death has seen women removing their own mandatory hijabs in public in protest.

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