Justice in Exile
Mohammed Mostafaei is the most famous political exile in the world. He's a lawyer and was forced to flee Iran after defending Sakineh Ashtiani from death by stoning. Still defiant despite exile, he speaks here.
"If freedom of speech existed in Iran, I would never have left", Mohammed bluntly says. He was forced to flee his country six weeks ago for defending Sakineh Ashtiani, the allegedly adulterous woman sentenced to death by stoning. He has saved at least 50 people from execution in Iran, but finally could stand no more when the Iranian authorities threw his wife into a notorious Tehran prison. Now reunited, they both continue to campaign for Sakineh and the many others languishing in Iranian prisons. As Feresteh, Mohammed's wife says, "to move forward, our country must engage in struggle, the struggle of individuals like Mohammed". We can only hope that the struggle will pay off.
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