Opinion | I loosened my hijab at a chess championship. Now I’m afraid to return to Iran.

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Opinion | I loosened my hijab at a chess championship. Now I’m afraid to return to Iran.
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A Iranian female judge at the 2020 Women’s World Chess Championship is afraid to return home: via washingtonpost

Iranian women protest for the Islamic hijab on July 12, 2014 in Tehran. for the International Chess Federation.

Even if my faith was fading, as a woman in Iran I had no choice but to tolerate the hijab — the Islamic emblem of constant, misogynistic oppression. I avoided looking at myself in mirrors. Wearing the head-covering was torment enough. When traveling abroad for chess tournaments, I admired the young women from other countries who wore nice clothes, their hair beautifully styled.

. When packing to travel to Shanghai for the first leg of the championship last month, I included several colorful scarves, which was the most daring I could be within the confines of Iranian law.After the first round in Shanghai, I received a message from the Iranian Chess Federation asking me to send a “good” photograph from the competition. Translation: Photos that I appeared in on foreign websites were not hijabi enough for the federation to post on the messaging app Telegram in Iran.

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