[lbo-talk] Iranian women barred from karate games

[uvj at vsnl.com]

Press TV
http://www.presstv.ir/news.aspx

Iranian women barred from karate games
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail.aspx?id=19555&sectionid=3510212

Wed, 15 Aug 2007

Eleven Iranian women have been banned from the Konishi Cup karate
competition in Kalmar, Sweden, after they refused to remove their hijab.

The women ended up watching the competition from the stands at the beginning
of August when head referee Javier Escalante declined to give them a special
dispensation, a Swedish-based English-language online newspaper The Local
said quoting the Sveriges Radio.
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail.aspx?id=19555&sectionid=3510212