Vol. 78/No. 47 December 29, 2014
Proceeds from cash donations, children’s sale of chocolate and sales of T-shirts saying “My sister is protecting Kobani,” all doubled by a matching fund, have brought in more than $42,000. Khademyani and others have worked with aid agencies to obtain medicine worth roughly $600,000. He and others will leave Jan. 11 to deliver supplies to Kobani refugee camps.
I showed Mohamad I Will Die the Way I’ve Lived, Pathfinder’s book of prison watercolors by Antonio Guerrero. “This is very powerful,” he said. He told me about a fellow prisoner in Iran. “If I had not gone through prison, and met people like him, I do not think I would still be fighting for freedom today.”
Katy LeRougetel
Calgary, Alberta
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