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PEN Melbourne Journal Summer 2020-21
November 25, 2020 IN WIP
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Rights activist Golrokh Iraee Ebrahimi has been slapped with a new 1-year sentence for engaging in peaceful protests while at Gharchak Prison. She's been serving a 2.1-year sentence since Nov. 2019 ... after being detained for having an unpublished story about writing in her home.
People say that (writers) are pretty powerless: we don’t have an army, we don’t have a bureaucracy. But if that were true, then why would writers be arrested?... Because the spoken word is powerful.
