Human Rights Watch has thrown its weight behind a challenge to Iran’s ban on women watching volleyball matches. Kelsi Farrington reports.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has thrown its weight behind a challenge to Iran’s ban on women watching volleyball matches.
Iranian women have been banned from attending live sporting events since the 1979 revolution, which declared it ‘un-Islamic’. But in 2012, the ban was extended to volleyball – the nation’s most popular sport.
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