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‘Ghavami is an inspiration to iranian women’
Tehran jails British-Iranian lawyer for attending volleyball match

Gulf director of a London-based international NGO Jasmine Jahromi yesterday hoped the attention given to British-Iranian Ghoncheh Ghavami will finally place scrutiny on Iran and their ban on women attending sports matches.

Ghavami was last week sentenced to a year in prison by a Tehran court for trying to attend a volleyball match in June between Iran and Italy.

Upon her arrest she was held for 100 days — 41 in solitary — and last month went on a 14-day hunger strike.

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