IRAN: Woman Poet and Publisher is Threatened to Death and Disappearance

The first recipient of the Jeri Laber International Freedom to Publish Prize in 2003 was Farkhondeh Hajizadeh, an Iranian publisher who is also a writer, poet, and the editor of two literary journals. Now she is threatened to death and disappearance and her publishing firm is being shut down. It is part of the systematic crackdown by the regime on independent publishing houses and writers, specially women in Iran.