Iran jails woman for attending volleyball game

Iran jails woman for attending volleyball game
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Iran has sentenced a British-Iranian woman to one year in prison after she tried to watch a men's volleyball game.

The court found 25-year-old Ghoncheh Ghavami guilty of spreading "propaganda against the regime" after she tried to attend a match between Iran and Italy in Tehran's Freedom Stadium in June. Women are prohibited from attending male-only sporting events in Iran, and Ghavami was detained while tying to enter the venue with other women to protest the ban.

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Jon Terbush

Jon Terbush is an associate editor at TheWeek.com covering politics, sports, and other things he finds interesting. He has previously written for Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, and Business Insider.