A Calgary couple has taken their protest of Iran’s hardline regime and their fight for women’s rights to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Hila Yardegar and her husband Farshid Papaei attend the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 match between Iran and England.
Cellphone video sent to CTV News from Yardegar shows her in the stands at Al Bayt Stadium waving an Iranian flag featuring a lion and a sun, one used prior to the Islamic regime takeover 43 years ago.At one point, her husband is hassled by another fan in the stands – the encounter caught on video. She says she and her husband were led outside of the stadium and met by a crowd of Qatari police, who they say made similar demands. That encounter is captured on video, but shows the officers walking away.She says they were then taken into custody and questioned for more than two hours at a police station. None of that is on video.
"The Islamic republic in Iran, they want just to be silent and nobody can hear our voice, but this is the only reason I am here, and I want to just be their voice around the world."
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