Sanctions: A ‘necessary evil’ Iranian women don’t buy
Around the world there are countless women whose experiences of British governments are very different from the image of defender of women’s rights.
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The arrest of two Iranian women’s rights activists in the past week is part of a two-year crackdown that has already seen 34 women incarcerated in…
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