"FIFA officials will make a visit to Iran after a young woman set herself on fire after being arrested for attending a soccer match.
...It was reported that when she went to pick up her cell phone, she overheard someone saying that if she was convicted, she would be sentence to between six months and two years in jail.
Hearing this, she set herself on fire in front of the courthouse and later died in the hospital.
Women have been forbidden from entering stadiums to watch men’s sporting events since 1981, two years after the Islamic Revolution that propelled the ayatollahs into power..."
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