Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much. I want to thank all four of our witnesses, Dr. Ebadi, Ms. Alinejad, Mr. Kowsar and Mr. Ratcliffe. If there's one common thread here today, it's the issue of accountability: for the women who suffer under the repressive regime and are forced to wear compuls

Foreign Affairs committee  MP Baylis, please.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. MP Wrzesnewskyj, please.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. Mr. Caron, you have the floor.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. We will now move to MP Saini.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Ratcliffe. Thank you, Mr. Kowsar. We will now move to questions from members. We are going to begin with MP Anderson, please.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Kowsar. Now we will move to Mr. Ratcliffe, please.

Foreign Affairs committee  The meeting has resumed. We now have our second panel of witnesses for Iran Accountability Week. I would like to welcome Nikahang Kowsar, an Iranian journalist, cartoonist and geologist now living in Canada, following his arrest for his work in Iran. He is the co-founder of the

Foreign Affairs committee  Thanks to you both for being here and providing such important testimony as we begin our Iran Accountability Week in the Canadian Parliament. Parliamentarians and Canadians stand with the Iranian people in fighting this oppression. We're going to suspend for a couple of minutes

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. We have time for a last, short question. I'm actually going to take that time myself. Ms. Alinejad and Dr. Ebadi, we've seen the situation for human rights in Iran getting worse over the last number of years. Rates of executions are up. Rates of persecution are up,

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. We're now going to move to MP Caron, please.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Dr. Ebadi.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Dr. Ebadi. I want to leave time to make sure we can get to the other questions. We're going to go straight to MP Vandenbeld, please.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much to both of you for your passionate testimony. I also acknowledge and point out that this morning we're doing this hearing in co-operation with our Subcommittee on International Human Rights, chaired by Anita Vandenbeld. We have David Anderson and other member

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Dr. Ebadi. We will move straight to Masih Alinejad. If you would also take around 10 minutes or so, and then of course we'll open it up to the members of the committee for some questions for both of the witnesses. Please go ahead, Ms. Alinejad.