The pain of being separated from your child by prison walls is almost impossible to convey. During our family’s six-year ordeal, the cruelty of Nazanin being kept apart from our daughter Gabriella by the capricious machinery of Iran’s “justice” system often threatened to overwhelm us.
And now our hearts are breaking to see our dear friend Laila Soueif on the edge of life and death, in an attempt to save her eldest child Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a brave and principled British-Egyptian writer who has done nothing to deserve the years he has spent behind bars separated from his mother, young child and sisters.
