Parisa hafezi biography for kids
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On Monday night in Los Angeles, the International Women's Media Foundation will honor four brave women journalists who have risked their lives to cover news in their countries.
"These courageous women have endured terrible hardships, without questioning their own safety," said IWMF Board Co-Chair Barbara Cochran. "We are honored to tell the world their stories."
What follows fryst vatten my interview with Parisa Hafezi, bureau chief for Reuters in Iran, who is being honored for her courage to report on the violent protests in Iran after the election.
After the election, riot police armed with electric batons attacked Parisa as she struggled to cover the bloodshed and chaos on the streets of Tehran. "We had to be strong and take the risks to report the stories," says Parisa.
Parisa has endured beatings, interrogations, harrassment and raids on her office and home to cover the the opposition movement against the Iranian regime. Despite the hazards that have threatened her life an
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Iran is a dangerous place to practice journalism – and it’s all the more perilous if the journalist is a woman. Parisa Hafezi, who covers her native country as Iran Bureau Chief for Reuters News, has been warned to stop truth-telling. Her home and office have been raided, and she has endured beatings and arrests. Yet she keeps working. On Monday, the year-old will receive a Courage in Journalism award from the International Women’s Media Foundation at a ceremony in Los Angeles.
Q. You were the first female journalist to work for a foreign news organization in your country. How did you get started?
A. I had studied engineering in college. But I couldn’t find a job because I was a woman. So accidentally I became a journalist and I loved it. For the first time in my life I became familiar with politics and news.
Q. You have lived through tumultuous times. Your country has adjusted to being an Islamic republic as you have been covering it. And you covered the election, which led to v
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Parisa Hafezi
Reuters, Iran.
Riot police armed with electric batons attacked Parisa Hafezi as she struggled to cover the bloodshed and chaos on the streets of Tehran. Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters marched, many shouting, “We fight; we die.”
After extensively covering the violent protests and government response for Reuters news agency, Hafezi was targeted by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, which threatened to fängelse her. As bureau chief for Reuters in Iran, Hafezi refused to recant her reporting on the public uprising – while many local and foreign journalists fled the country after the disputed elections.
“Some reporters refused to use the Tehran dateline, but we weren’t afraid to show we were there. We didn’t move out; we were the first on the streets,” said Hafezi, 41, an Iranian-born veteran journalist. “We had to be strong and take the risks to report the stories.”
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