Philip Coppeard, 41, from Newmarket, Suffolk, had emigrated with his wife Suzanne to start a new life in New Zealand just three months before the deadly quake on February 22 last year. The chartered accountant boarded Red Bus number 702 to attend the second day of a master’s degree course in economics at Canterbury University. […]
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“I could hear her make prisoners laugh. Sometimes, she even made the guards laugh.” This is what a former prisoner remembers of Zahra Bahrami, who, she says, was lively, kind to her fellow prisoners, and defiant towards the guards. (Boroumand Foundation interview with a former political prisoner, January 2012). One year ago in one of […]
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The expat, who is believed to work for the Japanese trading company Marubeni Corp, was snatched from his car by gunmen in the city of Warri. A man with him at the time, said in local reports to be a police escort, was shot dead during the incident last Friday. Read Article
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