“We have been through hell, now we are in purgatory, be sure that we will get to heaven and we will talk to the God of freedom!” These were the last words of Mohsen Shekari, to one of the customers of the café where he worked -the words of a young man who saw in the name Dante a Persian-language acronym: "Enemy of humanity, your destruction is my only goal."
INTERRUPTED LIVES: Portraits of Student Repression in Iran
"Interrupted Lives" is a traveling exhibit that tells the story of Iranian students who have been punished for expressing their beliefs. Thousands have been victims of politically motivated arrests or executions during the past three decades.
This timeline examines four decades of persecution of lawyers in Iran. It is the first phase of a project that seeks to provide an understanding about the root causes for systematic persecution of human rights defenders, journalists, lawyers and others who have called for reform.