Potkin Azarmehr is an Iranian activist and blogger who left Iran for the UK after the revolution of 1979. He has since become a key activist resisting religious extremism and political intolerance in Iran.
He won an International Council for Press and Broadcasting Media Award in 2009, and in 2010 his blog rose to nationwide importance, with 100,00 unique users at the height of that year’s post election protests.
Potkin Azarmehr, Iranian activist and blogger who left Iran for the UK after the revolution of 1979, since becoming a key activist resisting religious extremism and political intolerance in Iran, addresses the 6th Annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy – see quotes below, followed by full prepared remarks. Quotes: To Be
A panel including visiting fellow at the Center on the United States and Europe and the Project on International Order and Strategy at the Brookings Institution, James Kirchik; journalist, former Executive Director of the Club Suisse de la Presse between 1998 and 2019, and former President of the Swiss Red Cross,
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