Since the return from Christmas, I have shooting a documentary for BBC around an number of contributors who fled Iran after the election in June 2009. They all have one thing in common,they fled in fear of their lives. They all detail the truly terrible and vile conditions and treatment that they have had to endure as opposition supporters in Iran. Their testimonies are graphic,compelling and an indication of how a regime trys to control what it sees as dissent inside it's national borders.
The shooting of this programme has been across rural Turkey into the heart land of the refugee pipeline.Further on,it has taken us to the new home in Norway of one of the most promient women's rights and social media activists at the time of the election.From the safety of her new adopted home amosngst the spruce trees and fjords,she is able to carry on her work against the traditional punishment of public execution by stoning.The irony is though, Norway is the most connected and wired country in the world. The internet in Norway is the fastest and most reliable in the world,ensuring her message and campaign against stoming reaches the greatest number of people worldwide. This was something she could only dream about when she was blogging from hiding in Tehran.
The programme will be broadcast at 20.30 BBC 1 Monday night ,mid Febru
