Boxing-Iranian woman cancels return home after arrest warrant issued -source

ByReuters

Published 17/04/2019 at 09:10 GMT

PARIS, April 17 (Reuters) - Sadaf Khadem, who last Saturday became the first Iranian woman to contest an official boxing fight, has cancelled her return to Tehran after an arrest warrant was issued for her in her home country, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said.

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An arrest warrant was also issued against Mahyar Monshipour, the Iranian-born former boxing world champion who set up the bout in western France and was planning to travel back to Iran with Khadem this week, the same source told Reuters on Wednesday.

The French foreign ministry had no immediate comment.

On Saturday, Khadem beat local boxer Anne Chauvin in a 3x2 amateur bout, becoming the first Iranian woman to take part in a boxing fight [nL:L8N21T6DB].

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The 24-year-old, who was in Paris on Monday, is returning to Monshipour's home town of Poitiers.

(Reporting by Julien Pretot; editing by John Stonestreet)

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