The death of poet Mohammad Shabani, an Iranian dissident living in Turkey, catches his friends, family and supporters by surprise. Reporter Fariba Nawa finds one of Shabani’s confidantes and learns new details about his life in exile before he died. This is the third episode of “Lethal Dissent,” an investigative series from The World and the “On Spec Podcast.”
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