Voices Of The Middle East And North Africa

Nine months after a group of environmentalists affiliated with the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation were imprisoned in Iran without any evidence of wrongdoing and denied due process—and after the death of the organization's founder, Kavous Seyed Emami - five members of this Foundation have been charged with national security crimes carrying the death penalty. We speak with Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about the crackdown on environmentalists in Iran. Also this week, Amman-based activist, fiction writer and poet Hisham Bustani joins us to talk about two of his latest poems just translated and published in English.