Camelia Entekhabifard; Editor in Chief of The Independent Persian

After Mohammed Khatami was elected in 1997, the more open political climate afforded me new opportunities and I became even more outspoken. But the reformist paper I wrote for—Zan, which means "woman"—was shut down in the spring of 1999, and I was detained in solitary confinement for 76 days on the pretense that I'd breached national security and challenged the authority of the regime.