“Waiting for you Hamid,” says a sign on the front yard at Antonella Mega’s home in the Beach. Her husband, Hamid Ghassemi-Shall, was released Sept. 23 after five years and four months as a political prisoner in Iran. If all goes well, Mega can soon put up a sign that says “Welcome home.” Mega said […]
Tag: human rights
Beacher studies human rights on-site
One day last fall, Mariah Campbell was on a bus back to her homestay in Accra, Ghana, when a preacher got on and started singing. Riding a ‘trotro,’ the 15-seat vans or minivans that are the most popular type of mass transit in the Ghanaian capital, Campbell says you can get pretty close to your […]
