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'I couldn't tolerate it any longer': how Iranian chess referee with secret Jewish heritage was forced to live a 'fake' life

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When Shohreh Bayat, one of the world’s top chess referees, let her hijab slip during a match earlier this year she had no idea she may never return home to Iran again. Not long after the seemingly innocuous pictures of her loose hair had circulated in Iran, where headscarves are strictly mandated by the ruling ayatollahs, she was receiving threats to her life.

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'I couldn't tolerate it any longer': how Iranian chess referee with secret Jewish heritage was forced to live a 'fake' life

4 years ago·Los Angeles, United States

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Iran: Jewish chess referee forced to present 'fake' image of herself

When Shohreh Bayat, one of the world's top chess referees let her hijab slip during a match, she had no idea she might never return home again.

4 years ago·New Zealand

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'I couldn't tolerate it any longer': how Iranian chess referee with secret Jewish heritage was forced to live a 'fake' life

Shohreh Bayat faced a storm of controversy after a photograph was published in which her hijab was not visible

4 years ago·London, United Kingdom

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'I couldn't tolerate it any longer': how Iranian chess referee with secret Jewish heritage was forced to live a 'fake' life

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'I couldn't tolerate it any longer': how Iranian chess referee with secret Jewish heritage was forced to live a 'fake' life

'I couldn't tolerate it any longer': how Iranian chess referee with secret Jewish heritage was forced to live a 'fake' life

Iran: Jewish chess referee forced to present 'fake' image of herself

Iran: Jewish chess referee forced to present 'fake' image of herself

'I couldn't tolerate it any longer': how Iranian chess referee with secret Jewish heritage was forced to live a 'fake' life

'I couldn't tolerate it any longer': how Iranian chess referee with secret Jewish heritage was forced to live a 'fake' life

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