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Iran's courageous democracy advocates are certainly not safe in their own country, where they risk imprisonment, torture, and worse for criticizing Iran's corrupt mullahcracy.(The Week)(Brief Article)
* Iran's courageous democracy advocates are certainly not safe in their own country, where they risk imprisonment, torture, and worse for criticizing Iran's corrupt mullahcracy. But they may not be safe outside Iran, either. Abdulrahim Raeesi, an Iranian political-science professor, fled with his wife and son to Pakistan after he was arrested and maltreated for writing a pro-democracy article in an underground newspaper. But Iran's secret police soon found them, and while his family went to stay with friends elsewhere, Raeesi stayed put to seek asylum through the U.N.'s refugee agency. His request was denied, and on February 7 ...
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