
Refuge #43 Fifty People in Stowage
Iranian refugees Maryam and Benham boarded a crowded cockroach-infested boat. Their people smuggler told them that they would reach Australia in 3 days.
Iranian refugees Maryam and Benham boarded a crowded cockroach-infested boat. Their people smuggler told them that they would reach Australia in 3 days.
Maryam describes how she and Benham flew from Iran to Malaysia where they met people smugglers who directed them to Indonesia.
In Iran, Maryam is interrogated in a secret location and signs a confession, believing it to be the only way she will be released. She could not have known how that confession...
In Shiraz, Iran, Maryam was marching in the 2009 post-election demonstrations, calling for a freer society, when riot police charged into the crowd.