Shabnam AssadollahiShabnam Assadollahi, born in Iran and now residing in Ottawa, Canada, is a human rights advocate who has worked helping newcomers and refugees resettle in Canada, and as a broadcaster, writer and public speaker, primarily on the Iran. She also advocates for the emancipation of women and minority religious communities worldwide.
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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.
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