Shayan Arya Constitutionalist Party of Iran (Liberal Democrat)
Shayan Arya is an expert on Iran and also a human rights and political activist. He has been elected to the central committee of the Constitutionalist Party of Iran (Liberal Democrat) where he is currently serving his third term. He has co-authored many articles, focusing on the Islamic Regime of Iran's human rights violations, internal politics and terrorist activities. The articles have been published around the globe in publications such a Wall Street Journal, The Australian, Washington Times, Jerusalem Post, and Strategic Outlook, among others.
Dr. Shakil Afridi, a Pakistani physician who helped the U.S. locate Osama bin Laden, has been in jail in Pakistan since he was arrested days after the raid on bin Laden's compound in 2011. In 2013, he was granted a retrial, with a new charge that appears politically motivated: charged with murder in regard to the death, eight years earlier, of a patient he had treated. Afridi has gone on a hunger strike protest his unspeakable prison conditions -- including torture. His former lawyer, Samiullah Khan Afridi, was murdered by the Taliban in March 2015.