Iran women's activist vows to step up protest after Russia World Cup block
BEIRUT - An Iranian activist vowed to step up her campaign for her country to end its ban on women attending stadium games on Thursday, a day after she was blocked from a World Cup match in Russia and stripped of a banner.
Maryam Qashqaei Shojaei, who made international headlines with an earlier demonstration, said security officials had stopped her entering the stadium in Kazan with the banner she planned to raise during the game between Iran and Spain.
"After what happened last night, it made me want to fight more," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a phone interview on Thursday.
"I am going to ... fight harder and to try my best to change this rule."
