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Iran jails UK woman for 'attending match'
British-Iranian gets one-year prison term after
arrest last month as she headed to watch
volleyball game in Tehran.
An Iranian-British woman detained while trying to
attend a men's volleyball game has been
sentenced to one year in prison, her lawyer has
said.
Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabaei told the
Associated Press news agency on Sunday that a
court found Ghoncheh Ghavami, 25, guilty of
"propagating against the ruling system".
Tabatabaei said he was shown the text of the
verdict but was still waiting to officially receive it.
In a statement on Sunday, the British Foreign
Office cited concerns about Ghavami's conviction
and sentence.
"We have concerns about the grounds for this
prosecution, due process during the trial, and
Miss Ghavami's treatment whilst in custody," the
statement noted.
Ghavami was detained in June at Tehran's
Freedom Stadium, where Iran's national
volleyball team was to play Italy.
-Hunger strike-
Iranian officials have said Ghavami, who has been
held in the capital's notorious Evin Prison for 126
days, was detained for security reasons unrelated
to the volleyball match.
"Her case has nothing to do with sports," Iran's
judiciary spokesman, Gholam Hossein Mohseni
Ejehi, said last month.
Women are banned from attending male-only
matches in Iran and Ghavami tried to enter the
match with other women to protest the ban,
according to Amnesty International. Some were
reportedly turned away, but no others were
arrested.
The "Free Ghoncheh Ghavami" Facebook page,
where her friends and family campaigned for her
release, features photographs of her against the
slogan: "Jailed for wanting to watch a volleyball
match."
Ghavami has been held in solitary confinement
since her arrest, according to Amnesty, and she
began a hunger strike earlier this month to
protest her detention.
Iran does not recognise dual citizenship and
treats dual nationals as Iranians.
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