SARA KHADEM: TOP IRAN CHESS PLAYER EXILED FOR REFUSING HEADSCARF
When one of the world’s most promising chess players, 25-year-old Sara Khadem, decided to play at an international tournament without her headscarf, in solidarity with the protest movement in Iran, she thought a warning would be the worst that would happen to her.
Instead, she can’t return to Iran – there are arrest papers waiting for her, and she now lives in exile in southern Spain, with her husband and one-year-old son.
She and her family asked the BBC not to reveal her precise location; their worry is that there may be repercussions even thousands of miles away from Iran. [BBC]