Ghoncheh Ghavami needs no presentation nowadays, as lots of international media begun to talk about her situation after she has been sentenced to one year in prison. Everything started in June in Iran, when the Iranian-British woman was arrested while tried to attend a men's volleyball game (World League: Iran-Italy). We can assure that she choose this event beacuse of the importance of the game and the relevance of the opposite, in addition to the increasing success of Kovac's team.
Ghoncheh and some other girls tried to enter the sports arena with regular tickets, but they were immediately stopped and arrested. They went there to protest against the Iranian laws that forbid women from watching sport events where there are male athletes. Since 1979 women aren't allowed to enter soccer stadium and since 2012 the prohibition has been extended to volleyball games. In this way, according to Iranian regime, women would be protected from any indecent behaviour that might be done by male partecipants. In addition to breaking the law, there is something more that made the situation worse: these group of women should have wore colorful hijab, instead they had white hijab, which means - according to Iranian laws - they were propagandizing against the regime.
After a while Ghoncheh was released but on 30th June she had been arrested again in Vozara, where she came to have her mobile back. Then she was carried to Evin prison, where she was put in isolation without having the possibility to see her family and her lawyer for 41 days. She has been imprisoned for more than 125 days for trying to see a volleyball game now and this is even more surprising considering that Iran is a member of the international volleyball federation: it is not acceptable to grant such an important stage to a country that doesn't respect human rights.
An international mobilization has started, some Iranian intellectuals are collecting signatures to support her, FIVB sent a formal letter to Iran and also Amnesty International started the campaign "free Ghavami", to spread the message that "Ghoncheh Ghavami is a prisoner of conscience who must be released immediately and unconditionally".
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani talked with British Prime Minister David Cameron in New York for the 69th UN General Assembly but nothing has changed.
Italian federations - both women's and men's - has started an awareness campaign before the matches, showing t-shirts and banners to ask freedom for Ghoncheh.
Jumpin81m2 wanted to give some space to this incredibile situation, with the hope to spread the message to as many people as possible and with the intent to raise awareness towards the deficiencies of a country that is growing in sport aspects but still has severe problems in some basic human aspects. We hope that spreading her story means spreading her protest and her ideals... because Ghoncheh must be set free... because volleyball is not a crime for anyone... because human rights must be respected
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