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Iranian chess referee fears going home over hijab photo - BBC Newsnight
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February 20, 2020
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7:25Now PlayingIranian Shohreh Bayat, an arbiter for the International Chess Federation, says it's unsafe for her to return home to Iran after she was pictured without a headscarf at an international chess tournament. Subscribe to our channel here
Photographs were circulated showing Bayat wearing a headscarf around her shoulders while officiating in Shanghai.
She says it would be unsafe to return to Iran where the regime often imprisons women who do not wear a headscarf.
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