Protesters in Iran, as well as those forced to flee, are grappling with a government crackdown one year after the uprising that swept the nation.
"They're trying to silence me," she said. She rarely leaves her house and even stopped her son going to school for three months out of fear something might happen to him.In the past year, her father has been arrested six times for her activism. Her brother and sister have also been arrested. Her sister was threatened with rape.But her family has encouraged her not to stop being an activist."I'm not scared of the Islamic Republic government.
Mr Hamrahi thought he had died. A guard had shot him in his left eye with a paintball gun that contained a dense ball of pressurised plastic. One of the protesters, a nurse, helped clean the wound. But Mr Hamrahi desperately needed urgent medical care. Mr Hamrahi, now living in a modest apartment in the country, said he doesn't regret his involvement in the protests"because I fought for a free and prosperous Iran".
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