Iran blogger flies in to Israel after deportation fears

11 Aug, 2017

An Iranian blogger for an Israeli news site arrived in Israel on Thursday from Turkey where she had faced possible deportation back to the Islamic republic, the website said. The 32-year-old woman, Neda Amin, blogs for the Persian-language edition of The Times of Israel. She moved to Turkey in 2014 and sought asylum there, but risked being deported to Iran and feared her life would be in danger back home, the website said.

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