In her early twenties Negin Shiraghaei Kootenaei left her family home in Iran to follow her journalistic career but would never be able to return and live as a free woman.Hear about the various tricks the Iranian government used on her and her family to try and get her back to Iran. How while still in education she rallied other students to stand up against the brother in law of the supreme leader who violently attacked another student (and the intimidation which happened to her afterwards). How her parents felt about their daughter choosing a career as a political journalist in a country with no free speech, plus what happened to her 15 year old brother who was caught not wearing a long sleeve T-shirt in public. That's all in the first 30 minutes!You'll also here from Andrew as he shocks the hosts with the unusually honest comments once told to him by his travel guide whilst visiting China, and Theo also puts his two penny's worth into the conversation, not with talk of the Persian political system or free speech under totalitarian regimes around the world but instead with his culinary review of the rice "with the yellow stuff in" at his local North London Persian restaurant. If you believe in free speech get listening... Oh, and the yellow stuff is Saffron! Watch, Listen and SUBSCRIBE on...YoutubePeriscopeFacebookTwitterStitcherFacebookI-TunesSoundcloud@VialucciMediaRecorded in London.Audio & Visual Production by Kerem Isik Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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