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Searching for Iran’s Disappeared

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By Cora Engelbrecht Verified
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Families are doing ad-hoc forensics to confirm the whereabouts of their detained loved ones, who have been transferred to undisclosed locations, and are at risk of abuse or execution. In late February, a family in Tehran received a call from an imprisoned relative, Ali Asadollahi, a thirty-seven-year-old poet and dissident. He had been taken from his home in late January by security officers who were arresting suspected sympathizers of the protests that had erupted across Iran earlier that month.
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Searching for Iran’s Disappeared Prisoners

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By Cora Engelbrecht Verified
| The New Yorker Verified
Shailin and her siblings come from a family of dissidents who have long hoped to see the government fall. But she was enraged by the U.S. and Israel’s military campaign, which had wedged her relatives in Iran between autocracy and possible death. If her family left their houses to search for her brother, they risked encountering air strikes that were now “destroying our oil, our water, and our neighborhoods,” Shailin told me.
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Life in Iran, Amid Repression and War

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By Cora Engelbrecht Verified
| The New Yorker Verified
Hours after the U.S. and Israel began bombing Iran, a writer in Tehran texted me. “The war has started,” he wrote, followed later by an animated emoji of an arm emerging from a puddle of green slime to flash a thumbs-up. I had first connected with the writer, whom I will call Hadi, in late January. Hadi was part of a broader group of Iranian dissidents who had spent much of their adult lives toggling between imprisonment and self-imposed invisibility.
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