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Hossein Vafaei wore a black armband during his impressive UK Championship win over Mark Selby on Tuesday, saying afterwards: ‘This is for my people.’
The world number 20 beat the four-time world champion 6-4 at the Barbican in York, making it back-to-back UK Championships at which he has ousted Selby.
The 28-year-old has spoken of how hard it has been for him to compete this season with the civil unrest going on in his home country of Iran, where protests against the government have been raging for weeks.
The dissent was sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, who had been detained for wearing her headdress ‘inappropriately’ and hundreds have died since, with thousands detained.