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‘I’m better killed by sea than by government’
I prefer to be killed by the sea than by the government, Newsha, a 19-year old Iranian woman has said.
She fled Iran after being arrested during the protests following Mahsa Amini’s death. She is among 23 women who were rescued by the teams of #OceanViking last from a sailing vessel drifting in the Ionian Sea that had departed from Turkey
Her words: “I protested for freedom for the women in Iran. The government arrested me & sentenced me to 4 years of jail & 75 lashes. 7 of my friends died in the protests. I had to flee to save my life. I saw hell in this boat but I prefer to be killed by the sea than by the government”