Iranian chess player was warned not to return to Iran after competing without hijab -source

By Elwely Elwelly
FILE PHOTO Chess - FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships - Rapid Women - Almaty Kazakhstan - December 28 2022. Sara Khadem of Iran sits in front of a chess board. REUTERSPavel Mikheyev

FILE PHOTO: Chess - FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships - Rapid Women - Almaty, Kazakhstan - December 28, 2022. Sara Khadem of Iran sits in front of a chess board. REUTERS/Pavel Mikheyev

DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iranian chess player arrived in Spain on Tuesday after receiving what a source close to her said were warnings not to return to Iran for competing without a hijab at an international tournament in Kazakhstan.

Sara Khadem, born in 1997, took part in last week's FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships in Almaty without the hijab - a headscarf mandatory under Iran's strict dress codes.

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