![]() To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Iranian women dress like men to enter stadiums Read more: Fighting for women's football in Iran The authorities told her family: 'Your daughter has caused us enough trouble already we don't want to hear anything more from you.' Her relatives have been severely intimidated." "Sahar died on Friday and the security services buried her immediately. "Her family received a warning and is not allowed to talk to the media anymore," Maziyar Bahari, an Iranian-Canadian journalist and filmmaker who is in contract with Khodayari's family, told DW. Iran's judiciary has been asked to investigate her death, state media later reported. Pictures of the woman covered in bandages at the hospital were shared widely on social media. Khodayari was arrested and initially released on bail, but her six-month prison sentence was confirmed again last week. ![]() She had disguised herself as a man, donning a blue hairpiece and long overcoat. Khodayari, who was also known as the "Blue Girl," tried to enter a stadium in March to watch her favorite Iranian soccer team, Esteghlal. The woman, identified as Sahar Khodayari, doused herself in petrol and set herself on fire outside a court last week after learning she'd been handed a 6-month prison sentence for trying to enter a stadium. A 29-year-old woman protesting against Iran's ban on women being allowed in soccer stadiums died of her injuries after setting herself on fire, local media reported on Tuesday.
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