Two Nazanins, one uplifting tale

Nazanin Afshin-Jam speaks with George Stroumboulopoulos in May 2012. How do two women—one in Canada, the other in Iran—become so inexorably bound together that their connection changes both their lives? It all started with an email. So begins the tale of two Nazanins. By the time Nazanin Afshin-Jam, an Iranian-Canadian human-rights activist, singer, model and author, heard of the case of Nazanin Mahabad Fatehi, she had already shown signs of interest in human-rights issues. She felt compelled to respond to the message marked urgent. On the other side of that message was a plea from a French interpreter to help Fatehi, an 18-year-old Iranian woman who had been convicted and sentenced to death for stabbing a man who attempted to rape her and her niece. And respond she did.
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