Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Welcome, everybody. This is a very special meeting of our Subcommittee on International Human Rights, because this is the first time since the subcommittee was formed that we are going to be honouring and giving recognition to human rights defenders around the world. As you kn

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you very much. I want to thank all four of our witnesses; Professor Akhavan, whom I unfortunately forgot to mention in my initial introduction; Maryam Shafipour, who is here in person; Dr. Boroumand; and Raheel Raza. I also want to thank the witnesses who came on Tuesday

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Just a 30-second answer, please.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you very much. Ms. Hardcastle, you have four minutes for your questions.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you very much. I want to thank all four of our witnesses. We have time for just three short questions of four minutes each. We will begin our questioning with Mr. Sweet.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you very much. We'll now go to Ms. Khalid for four minutes.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you very much. My apologies for being strict on time. We have four witnesses today, and only one hour. Speaking of our fourth witness, we have Payam Akhavan, who is a professor at McGill University, a senior fellow at the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, and co-fo

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Could I ask you to conclude, please? You're a little over your time.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you very much, Ms. Raza. Our next witness is Ladan Boroumand, who is coming to us from Washington, D.C. Go ahead.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you very much for your courage, and as a committee we are also very glad that you are able to be here to speak about this in a way that will shed light on it.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  We will now have the first witness by video conference. Raheel Raza, you have eight minutes. Go ahead.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Welcome, everybody. This is our second session of this year's Iran Accountability Week, a week that we've been holding through the human rights subcommittee since 2012. It's a week where we can bring in people who are able to speak about the human rights situation in Iran and pro

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Witnesses, I'd like to thank you both very much, especially for your courage, Ms. Shajarizadeh, and thank you very much, Mr. Hashemi. As you know, we will be having another hearing on this on Thursday at one o'clock. With that, we are going to be going in camera momentarily for

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  In 30 seconds.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you. The final questions go to you, Ms. Hardcastle. You have seven minutes.