Family of Iranian soccer legend who supported protests not allowed to leave

Luke Gentile

December 27, 05:36 PM December 27, 05:36 PM

The family of a prominent former Iranian soccer player has reportedly been blocked from leaving the country after the player openly supported anti-government protests.

Ali Daei, who captained the Iranian national team between 2000 and 2006, said his wife and daughter were stopped from leaving Iran on Monday.

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The pair had legally been on a plane that made a surprise stop on its way to Dubai. The flight, which had left Tehran, landed on on the Iranian Kish Island and Daei's wife and daughter were subsequently questioned by authorities. Daei's passport was briefly seized earlier this year, he said.

His daughter was released, Daei explained, but the status of his wife has not been confirmed. Daei's wife was subjected to a travel ban in early December as a result of her open support for the protests in Iran.

She had attempted to illegally bypass the ban and travel to the United States, the report noted, citing the semiofficial Tasnim news agency.

Iran has been embroiled in protests following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died in custody after not adhering to Iran's strict dress code.

Iranian schoolgirl dies following overwhelmed for refusing to sing pro-regime music: Report

Asher Notheis

October 18, 04:07 PM Oct 18, 04:07 PM

A schoolgirl in Iran allegedly died in a healthcare facility following becoming beaten by stability forces for refusing to sing a professional-regime anthem in a classroom as anti-routine protests sweep the nation.

Asra Panahi, 16, was at the Shahed Girls Higher School in Ardabil on Thursday when protection forces raided the setting up and demanded a team of women sing a tune that praised Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Associations wrote on social media. When the ladies refused, stability forces conquer them, and various girls have been hospitalized from the accidents sustained from the beatings while many others ended up arrested, the group claimed, in accordance to a translation documented by the Guardian.

Panahi, who was among the victims hospitalized, is said to have died on Friday from her injuries that she sustained at the faculty. A guy determined as her uncle appeared on point out Television set channels boasting his niece had died from a congenital heart affliction, per the Guardian. Iranian officials denied protection forces were responsible for Panahi's death.

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Iranian authorities have been raiding schools throughout the nation as young women put up films in aid of Mahsa Amini, 22, who a short while ago died soon after becoming detained by Iran’s morality police for not sporting her hijab appropriately. The movies that the women have posted contain footage of them waving their hijabs in the air, shouting anti-routine slogans, and taking down pictures of Iran’s leaders. As observed by the Guardian, steps taken by state officials in their college raids consist of violently arresting schoolgirls, pushing them into cars, and firing tear gasoline into university properties.

Iran’s instructors union has condemned the “brutal and inhumane” raids and has demanded Iran's schooling minister, Yousef Nouri, to resign from his posture.