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10-01-2016, 12:40 AM
This U.S. chess champion is missing the world contest in Iran to protest hijab policy
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One female chess player is protesting Iran's hijab laws by missing the world tournament.
Nazi Paikidze-Barnes is the reigning U.S. women's chess champion. But she won't be going to the Women's World Championship (https://www.chess.com/news/women-world-championship-in-iran-and-other-fide-decisions-2773) being held there in February.*
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She explained her decision on Friday in a Facebook post in which she called the World Chess Federation's decision to have the contest in Tehran "unacceptable."
"I think it's unacceptable to host a WOMEN'S World Championship in a place where women do **t have basic fundamental rights and are treated as second-class citizens," she wrote on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1061614973956995&set=p.1061614973956995&type=3&theater). Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/30/us-chess-champion-protests-hijab-policy-iran/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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One female chess player is protesting Iran's hijab laws by missing the world tournament.
Nazi Paikidze-Barnes is the reigning U.S. women's chess champion. But she won't be going to the Women's World Championship (https://www.chess.com/news/women-world-championship-in-iran-and-other-fide-decisions-2773) being held there in February.*
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She explained her decision on Friday in a Facebook post in which she called the World Chess Federation's decision to have the contest in Tehran "unacceptable."
"I think it's unacceptable to host a WOMEN'S World Championship in a place where women do **t have basic fundamental rights and are treated as second-class citizens," she wrote on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1061614973956995&set=p.1061614973956995&type=3&theater). Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/30/us-chess-champion-protests-hijab-policy-iran/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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