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1:22Now PlayingIranian climber returns home after hijab mishap at South Korea event | USA TODAY
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1:22Now PlayingIranian competitive climber Elnaz Rekabi caused a stir after forgetting her hijab during the final rock climbing event in Seoul, South Korea.
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An Iranian competitive climber left South Korea on Tuesday after competing at an event in which she climbed without her nation’s mandatory headscarf covering, authorities said. Farsi-language media outside of Iran warned she may have been forced to leave early by Iranian officials and could face arrest back home, which Tehran quickly denied.
The decision by Elnaz Rekabi, a multiple medalist in competitions, to forgo the headscarf, or hijab, came as protests sparked by the Sept. 16 death in custody of a 22-year-old woman have entered a fifth week. Mahsa Amini was detained by the country’s morality police over her clothing.
An Instagram post on an account attributed to Rekabi described her not wearing a hijab as "unintentional," though it wasn’t immediately clear whether she wrote the post or what condition she was in at the time.
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