Opposition website Kalame reports Ghoncheh Ghavami was arrested after trying to watch men’s volleyball match
An Iranian-British woman has
gone on hunger strike in prison in Tehran to protest against her arrest for
trying to watch a men’s volleyball game, the opposition website Kalame reported
on Sunday.
Ghoncheh Ghavami’s
incarceration has angered Iranian women who say they are still waiting for the
greater freedom promised by Hassan Rouhani when he was elected president last
year.
Ghavami, 25, was arrested on 20
June outside Tehran’s Azadi Stadium, where she was taking part in a
demonstration demanding that women be allowed inside to watch Iran playing
Italy in an international league match.
Iranian women in the Islamic
Republic are banned from watching certain male sports events such as football
and volleyball.
Ghavami was released soon
after, but then re-arrested days later when she was called back to reclaim
items that had been confiscated when she was first detained.
The human rights group Amnesty
International says she has been held at the Evin prison, which has a reputation
for brutality, and has spent time in solitary confinement.
Kalame said she had been on
hunger strike for five days.
Britain has expressed dismay at
her detention, which came just before the arrest in July of Jason Rezaian, an
Iranian-American reporter for the Washington Post, and his wife, Yeganeh
Salehi, who had worked as a correspondent for the Emirati English-language
daily the National. They are being held without charge. Iran does not recognise
dual citizenship and treats dual nationals as Iranians.
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