In Iran, grieving comes with punishment
The World
PRX
4.6 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In Iran, some families are still searching morgues for their loved ones. Among those who have found them, some say they have been intimidated and threatened by security forces for holding funerals. Also, Bobi Wine, the leading opposition figure in Uganda’s presidential elections, speaks to The World’s Marco Werman from hiding, one week after Uganda’s longtime president, Yoweri Museveni, was declared the winner of a disputed election. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday to appeal for support. Plus, National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek shares some sticky situations he’s encountered on the Eden Walk.
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| 0:00.0 | Iran's government has used deadly force against protesters in the past, but the most recent crackdown there was on a whole different scale. |
| 0:12.6 | This immediately rises to the level of crime against humanity. |
| 0:17.2 | I'm Marco Werman. And I'm Carolyn Beeler, how even mourning the dead in Iran can be caused for government repression. |
| 0:23.6 | Also in Uganda, the country's leading opposition figure, Bobby Wine, speaks with me from hiding. |
| 0:29.6 | I see myself as a candle that is meant to light other condos so that we all shine as a generation. |
| 0:35.6 | From Colombia, we'll hear about U.S. funded counter-narcotics operations |
| 0:39.9 | now that American funding has been cut off |
| 0:42.4 | and reconnecting with your roots through music. |
| 0:46.0 | It's my way of channeling that magic and expressing that magic |
| 0:50.5 | that is in my bloodline. |
| 0:53.2 | That's all ahead today, here on the world. |
| 0:58.8 | This is the world. I'm Carolyn Beeler. And I'm Marco Wurman. Thank you for joining us. |
| 1:03.8 | We begin today in Iran where families across the country are searching at hospitals and |
| 1:08.5 | morgues for the bodies of their loved ones. Human rights groups say Iranian security forces killed thousands of people during protests earlier |
| 1:16.0 | this month. But even for those who have been able to collect remains of people who went missing, |
| 1:22.1 | laying them to rest can bring new pressure from the authorities. The world's Sharanjafari reports. |
| 1:28.2 | When I ask Azam Djangravi if she feels ready to talk, this is her response. |
| 1:37.7 | I'm done crying, she tells me. I have so much rage. I want to tell my story. Her story is of unthinkable loss, |
| 1:47.7 | of the death of not one but six of her relatives in the recent protests in Iran. Switching to |
| 1:54.1 | English, she says over the past week she's been trying to piece together what happened to them. |
| 1:59.6 | One by one, in short, phone calls with her mom and other family members. |
| 2:04.6 | Sometimes my letter to call me just for one minute or two minutes after two minutes, |
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