Women Football Fans Decry Restrictions:
“Why Didn’t They Let Us All In?”
طرفداران زن
فوتبال در تقبیح محدویت های جاری : چرا آنها
به ما همه اجازه را ندادند؟"
OCTOBER
11, 2019
Women’s
Tickets Capped at 4,000 Out of 75,000
The soccer
match between Iran and Cambodia on October 10, 2019, in Tehran’s Azadi Stadium
included the historic presence of thousands of women. However, although the
stadium was more than half empty, the authorities capped the number of tickets
sold to women and denied female photographers press access.
No law bans
women in Iran from entering stadiums, but the policy—endorsed by hardline
government officials, clerics and high-level judicial officials—has been
enforced by security forces since 1981, three years after the country’s
revolution.
