
OpinionBy Kingsley C. Anekwe
A Death Sentence for a Blog Post: The Case of Soda Ebrahimi Shamsabadi and Iran’s Continuing Assault on Free Expression
On August 23, 2026, a lawyer in Bandar Abbas, Iran, received notice that his 33-year-old client had been sentenced to death. Her crime was not violence. It was not terrorism. It was writing. Soda (“Sevda”) Ebrahimi…
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