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BC woman imprisoned in Iran when she was pregnant tells harrowing story

The emotional first-hand account of a Port Coquitlam woman who was a political prisoner in Iran in the early 1980s. She was arrested along with her husband when she was 7 months pregnant. She is now advocating for the release of Shahla Abdi, a pregnant Iranian woman reportedly facing imminent execution for burning a photo of Ruhollah Khomeini.