Time.news – The family home of the Iranian climber Elnaz Rekabi it was demolished. The young girl first came to prominence last fall when she competed bareheaded, without a headscarf, in South Korea at the Asian Sport Climbing Championships.
In the video, shown by one of the dissident sites, Iranwire, the house is seen destroyed and several medals thrown on the ground. The video also shows Rekabi’s brother, Davood – also a champion climber, as well as the one who had introduced his sister to the sport – crying. The man who recorded the video – whose identity is not known – says in the background: “This is the result of life in this country … What can you say?”. It is unclear when the demolition took place.
The repressive forces of the Islamic Republic attacked and destroyed the family garden house of #ElnazRekabi. She is a rock climbing champion who took her hijab off in the Asian Championships.#Mehsa_Amini pic.twitter.com/klRtNnjw5j
— ༺ℋᎾℳᎯ༻ (@Homa2021) December 2, 2022
The sensational gesture of Rekabi, in South Korea, had had a worldwide resonance and had been read as support for the protests that began in mid-September in the country over the death of the 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, following her arrest by morality police for not wearing her hijab properly. Rekabi, when you returned to Tehran, you issued a statement widely considered suspicious, in which you explained that your hijab had fallen off “inadvertently”.