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Iran - UNEP Welcomes Release of Niloufar Bayani and Conservationists


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Niloufar Bayani is an Iranian wildlife biology conservation researcher and activist.  She was convicted in 2019 of espionage by Iranian authorities in a closed-door trial in Iran, and received a 10-year prison sentence. She was born in 1986 in Tehran and graduated from McGill University in Montreal. She later worked for UNEP for five years.

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