The Iranian competitive climber Elnaz Rekabi received a jubilant welcome on her return to Tehran early on Wednesday, after competing in South Korea without the headscarf her country requires its female athletes to wear.
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Protests sparked by the death in custody on 16 September of a 22-year-old woman have entered a fifth week. Mahsa Amini was detained by the country’s 'morality police' over her clothing and her death has led to women removing their mandatory hijabs in public.

An Instagram post on an account attributed to Rekabi described her not wearing a hijab as 'unintentional', though it was not immediately clear whether she wrote the post or what condition she was in at the time.

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