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    Death of Iran's 'Blue Girl' casts spotlight on lives of Iranian women

    by Ramin Mostaghim and Melissa Etehad, Los Angeles Times Oct 06, 2019 5 minutes

    TEHRAN, Iran - Sahar Khodayari understood the law: Women in Iran are forbidden to enter sports stadiums. But the 29-year-old wanted to watch a soccer match - a benign activity hundreds of thousands of women around the world enjoy.

    So, in March when her favorite team was playing, Khodayari did what other Iranian women have done in order to watch live sports events: She disguised herself as a man. Donning a blue wig and long overcoat, Khodayari made her way toward Tehran's Azadi Stadium, but she never made it inside. A security guard caught her and arrested her. When she found out in early September that she faced six months in prison, Khodayari set herself on fire outside the courthouse where she had been summoned. She died in a Tehran hospital less than two weeks later.

    Khodayari's death has made her the face of

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