A cheering crowd collected at the Teheran airport early Wednesday earlymorning to welcome house climber Elnaz Rekabi from her competitors in South Korea.
Rekabi endedupbeing a star in Iran after she gotinvolved in the occasion without using her country’s obligatory headscarf covering. The International Federation of Sport Climbing said Rekabi used a hijab throughout her preliminary looks at the one-week climbing occasion. She used simply a black headband in Sunday’s last.
Her action came in the wake of acrossthecountry demonstrations over the Sept. 16 death of a 22-year-old female, Mahsa Amini, who was apprehended by Iranian morality cops over her clothes.
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Elnaz Rekabi–the Iranian climber who declined to wear compulsory hejab while completing–is welcomed as a hero at 5AM at Tehran airport after her aircraft lands from Seoul. Imprisoning her will just boost the Iranian country’s enormous admiration for her. pic.twitter.com/7LFUk8hTTJ
— Karim Sadjadpour (@ksadjadpour) October 19, 2022
An Instagram post on an account associated to Rekabi explained her not using a hijab as “unintentional,” though it wasn’t rightaway clear whether she composed the post or what condition she was in at the time.
In a historical relocation, Iranian professionalathlete Elnaz Rekabi who represented Iran at the Asian Climbing Competitions finals in Seoul, contended without hijab, disobeying the Islamic Republic’s restrictions for female athletes. pic.twitter.com/KvxE5NoQLi
— Iran International English (@IranIntl_En) October 16, 2022
Rekabi was on Iran’s 11-member delegation, consistedof of 8 professionalathletes and 3 coaches, to the occasion, according to the IFSC.
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