Chilliwack resident and former Iranian torture victim Ghazaleh Nozamani is among several individuals and Iran-connected organizations asking Canadian Members of Parliament (MPs) to sponsor Iranian detainees in an effort to stop their executions.
After participating in student protests in Iran in 1999, Nozamani was tortured in a detention centre and then dropped off in the countryside.
The then-20-year-old survived and spent the next decade working on human rights issues and helping operate an orphanage in Iran.