The authenticity of an Iranian dissident’s suicide note is tested

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Mohammad Shabani was an Iranian poet and dissident living in exile in Turkey when he fell to his death from his apartment balcony in 2021. Reporter Fariba Nawa got a copy of a suicide note the police recovered from Shabani’s apartment. Nawa get’s the note analyzed by a handwriting expert. This is the final excerpt from the podcast “Lethal Dissent.”

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