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Italian Volleyball League support Ghoncheh Ghavami
Ghoncheh Ghavami was sentenced to one year in prison for “spreading propaganda against the system”. The British lawyer with Iranian origins is on trial in Iran for participating in a peaceful protest against the ban on women from attending sport events in public facilities along with men.
On June 20, she was arrested outside the Azadi Stadium while trying to enter for the World League game between Iran and Italy. She has already spent 126 days in the Evin prison, in Teheran.
The world of volleyball, united in supporting Ghoncheh Ghavami, is engaged in an international campaign to raise awareness so that she can be released. The FIVB President Ary Graca showed its total commitment to this campaign during the 34th World Congress, and he called upon all the Federations of the world. The campaign runs along the activism promoted by the Organization of Human Rights: Amnesty International has adopted Ghoncheh as a prisoner of conscience, and continues to ask for her release to Iranian authorities.
Through the message FREE GHONCHEH (which takes up the title of the Facebook page opened by the brother of the imprisoned girl) in occasion of the coming games, all the Serie A court will be exhibiting two big banners asking to free the young woman.
The message will also be repeated on all advertising spaces of all the SuperLega teams, which can be seen abroad too thanks to the streaming and the worldwide television distribution.
