A British-Iranian woman, Ghoncheh Ghavami has been in Iranian prison for more than two months when she went to the 'Azadi Stadium' in Tehran for trying to watch a men's volleyball match. She was arrested along with more than a dozen women as they tried to enter the stadium. Twenty-five-year-old Ghavami, a budding lawyer who studied in London, has dual Iranian and British nationality. a Facebook compaign to get her free has been started which gained almost 9,000 'likes' and lead to protest at other Iranian volleyball matches. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office said it was aware of reports of her imprisonment and was looking into them but its Diplomatic powers in Iran are limited. The law was introduced after 1979 Islamic Revolution as mixed crowds enjoying games, where men are not considered fully dressed, was deemed unislamic. The ban which extends to female journalists has been lifted in exceptional circumstances, but hardliners have said it is needed to protect women from 'lewd behaviour'. Foreign women who have travelled to Iran to watch volleyball matches had been permitted inside the venues but only when displaying their passports.
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