Interview with Alexander Deeto of DW. Bulgaria. The Iranians know that things will not get better: the water crisis will not be solved, the economy will not improve, and the political problems will remain. For this reason, people are willing to risk their lives; this is what Hamid, who speaks openly about the situation, says. Why are the protests different […]
Live talk panel with Euronews Romania.
“When I’m working with refugees, the part of me I consider human becomes stronger,” he told me. A lanky, 40-year-old with long grey hair, Khoshsiar explained that humanitarian work was not his background. He studied physics in Tehran and later worked in software sales, but now he occupies a cramped, supply-packed office at the local outpost of Mission Wings. People […]
We visited the tiny Bulgarian mountain village of Shtit, a sleepy place with dirt roads and rusting farm machinery – a place that doesn’t seem to hold much geopolitical significance, but that’s right at the border, which is marked by a 4m high fence and razor wire. “It’s very sharp and it’s almost impossible to climb with bare hands,” says […]
On the road from Türkiye to Bulgaria: Stories of violence and repression. https://www.rsi.ch/info/mondo/La-frontiera-della-violenza–2362173.html
Khoshsiar, who is part of a local humanitarian organisation called Mission Wings and manages a small community centre in Harmanli, said fear is at the heart of the protests against the camp. “What people don’t know, they fear – this is the main reason why they are concerned about the situation with the camp,” he told BIRN. “After the elections […]