Camelia Sadeghzadeh

By Camelia Sadeghzadeh BBC Persian Published duration16 January 2016 image copyrightAP image captionJason Rezaian in Tehran, April 2013 Born and raised in the United States, Jason Rezaian was always fascinated by the country his Iranian father left in the 1960s. His American mother Mary told the BBC that from an early age he had wanted to know more about the Iranian side of his heritage.

Image copyright BBC News Image caption Neda, 18, took a lift home with two male friends and was later forced to undergo a virginity test "My life has been turned upside down. I used to have a good life. But now everything has changed for me." Neda sits on a threadbare Afghan rug. A shy 18 year old from Bamiyan in central Afghanistan, she adjusts her headscarf as she recalls the day doctors forcibly subjected her to an intimate and degrading "virginity test".

"My life has been turned upside down. I used to have a good life. But now everything has changed for me." Neda sits on a threadbare Afghan rug. A shy 18 year old from Bamiyan in central Afghanistan, she adjusts her headscarf as she recalls the day doctors forcibly subjected her to an intimate and degrading "virginity test". It was 2015 and she had just finished a late-night theatre rehearsal. The walk home would have taken nearly two hours.