That poor girl that had the temerity to try to watch a game of football.

[ippy]

This poor Iranian girl set fire and killed herself after being prosecuted for trying to get in to watch a game of football, dressed as a man.

It'll be interesting to hear whatever the Iranian authorities will have to say about this, if anything.

I think the whole circumstances surrounding this event stinks of extremely  primitive ignorance, whatever else could it be?

[ippy]

For info Ippy is referring to this:

I wasn't referring to the BBC's presentation of anything.

[Udayana]

This poor Iranian girl set fire and killed herself after being prosecuted for trying to get in to watch a game of football, dressed as a man.

It'll be interesting to hear whatever the Iranian authorities will have to say about this, if anything.

I think the whole circumstances surrounding this event stinks of extremely  primitive ignorance, whatever else could it be?

I doubt that the Iranian authorities would say anything - just as the UK authorities remained silent, even tried to cover up, the death of a woman that set herself alight in a Barnet Council office (August 2018) in despair at her treatment.

ETA: correct date of incident.

[Aruntraveller]

I wasn't referring to the BBC's presentation of anything.

pardon me for trying to give a bit of context. I will remove it and no-one will have a clue as to what you are babbling about.

[Gordon]

This poor Iranian girl set fire and killed herself after being prosecuted for trying to get in to watch a game of football, dressed as a man.

It'll be interesting to hear whatever the Iranian authorities will have to say about this, if anything.

I think the whole circumstances surrounding this event stinks of extremely  primitive ignorance, whatever else could it be?

What Iranian girl?

Do you have a link?

[Nearly Sane]

What Iranian girl?

Do you have a link?

This?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-49646879

[jeremyp]

I doubt that the Iranian authorities would say anything - just as the UK authorities remained silent, even tried to cover up, the death of a woman that set herself alight in a Barnet Council office (August 2018) in despair at her treatment.

ETA: correct date of incident.

I think Udayana is referring to this

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/sep/08/unlearned-lessons-death-of-woman-housing-mental-health-crisis

in case anybody is thinking "I never heard about that" which is what I was thinking. Both cases are pretty bad but it's interesting that I knew immediately what Ippy was referring to but not what Udayana was referring to.

[Udayana]

I think Udayana is referring to this

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/sep/08/unlearned-lessons-death-of-woman-housing-mental-health-crisis

in case anybody is thinking "I never heard about that" which is what I was thinking. Both cases are pretty bad but it's interesting that I knew immediately what Ippy was referring to but not what Udayana was referring to.

Indeed.