All of us at Gatestone Institute are devastated to learn of the untimely passing of Elon Dershowitz, 64, son of Gatestone's longtime friend and Distinguished Senior Fellow Alan M. Dershowitz. Elon was as warm, kind and passionate about furthering truth and justice as his father is. We shall miss him always. Our hearts go out to the Dershowitz family with all our love.
Bahareh Hedayat is a human rights activist who has spent over six years in an Iranian prison for "insulting" Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and then-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and for "actions against national security, propagation of falsehoods, mutiny and illegal congregation." Hedayat is the longest serving female prisoner of conscience in Iran.