February 12, 2014

Iranian poet and human rights advocate Hashem Shaabani was executed in Iran on January 27. According to reports, an Islamic Revolutionary Tribunal sentenced the poet, and 14 others, to death, for… Read more »

Authors

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Melville House Books

Poet Hashem Shaabani executed in Iran

Julia Fleischaker