From the Evin Prison

the lyrics of this song are based on words from letters by Mahvash Sabet. read about her letter & story

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Mahvash Sabet is an award-winning poet and teacher from Iran. In 2017, she was chosen as the winner of the PEN Pinter Prize for a Writer of Courage by fellow poet Michael Longley.

Having already spent several long years in detention between 2008 and 2017, Mahvash Sabet was once again arrested in Iran in July 2022. She has since been sentenced to a further ten years in Iran's notorious Evin prison on spurious charges and is currently fighting for her life due to serious illness.

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Bijan Khadem-Missagh wrote this song in honour of Mahvash Sabet and all innocent people unjustly being persecuted.