Sonntag, 7. Februar 2016

Bahareh Hedayat

"In our dreams, no barbed wire and no iron fence will ever keep students from entering universities."
Bahareh Hedayat, 33, is a leading students' and women's rights activist in Iran. In 2010 she was sentenced to nine years in prison for her peaceful activism. In 2015, after an appeals court ordered her release, she was sentenced to two more years. Bahareh Hedayat won the 2012 Harald Edelstam Defence of Human Rights Award.