Thank you so much for those comments. It's so lovely to hear that. I'm amazed that my book reached the attention of anybody in Canada, so I really appreciate it.
Building on what Karim said, Niloufar Bayani is somebody I would absolutely like to mention. She's a Canadian permanent resident, as Karim said. She went to McGill University, where she studied biology and conservation. She has a lot of connections to Canada. All of her family members are permanent residents there and still, to this day, routinely travel to Canada for business purposes, as well as seeing family.
I also know that the family of Houman Jokar, who is another Iranian in this same case.... I'll mention that this is the same case as Kavous Seyed-Emami, the Canadian professor who died under IRGC interrogation, and the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation group of conservationists who were arrested in 2018 and charged with espionage.
Several of them have links to Canada. Houman Jokar's family, including his sister, migrated to Canada and are citizens. Several members of this group—not just Professor Seyed-Emami, who passed away—have links to Canada.
Niloufar Bayani is a permanent resident. She studied there and returned to Iran to do good in her home country. She only returned for nine months before being arrested. She also used to work at the UN Environment Programme. She has a master's from Columbia University. She's one of Iran's best and brightest, and she is very committed to saving Iran's endangered species, particularly the big cat species of Iran. She has gone on the record quite bravely as having been not only tortured in prison, but sexually assaulted and sexually harassed on a number of occasions, including as mechanisms to extract a false confession from her, which she has very vocally retracted since then.
I really hope that the Canadian Parliament and the Canadian public remember not only Kavous, who was their citizen, but Niloufar Bayani, who is a permanent resident and is still, more than four years later, suffering unjust incarceration in Evin prison.