From Reuters:
“Iranian chess player who removed hijab gets Spanish
citizenship”
(Chess - FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships - Rapid
Women - Almaty, Kazakhstan - December 28, 2022. Sara Khadem of Iran plays
against Olga Girya of Russia.)
An Iranian chess player who moved to Spain in January after
she competed without a hijab and had an arrest warrant issued against her at
home has been granted Spanish citizenship, Spain said on Wednesday. Sarasadat
Khademalsharieh, better known as Sara Khadem, took part in the FIDE World Rapid
and Blitz Chess Championships held in Kazakhstan in late December without the
headscarf that is mandatory under Iran's strict Islamic dress codes. Laws
enforcing mandatory hijab-wearing became a flashpoint during the unrest that
swept Iran when a 22-year-old Iranian-Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, died in the
custody of the morality police in mid-September. The 26-year-old has told
Reuters she had no regrets over her gesture in support of the protest movement
against her country's clerical leadership. Spain's official gazette said the
cabinet approved granting Khadem citizenship on Tuesday "taking into
account the special circumstances" of her case.
^ This is good to see. That she stood up to the Iranian Dictatorship,
brought world attention to the problems there and is now safe in Spain. Hopefully
one day she can return to a free Iran. ^
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