Fears are growing for an Iranian climber who has left South Korea after competing at an event in which she climbed without her nation's mandatory headscarf covering.
Farsi-language media outside Iran warned she may have been forced to leave early by Iranian officials and could face arrest back home, which Tehran quickly denied.
The decision by Elnaz Rekabi to forgo the hijab came as protests sparked by the death in custody of a 22-year-old woman have entered a fifth week.
