Hello and welcome to this edition of The Best of Today podcast, this time featuring the work of our guest editor Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe.

It's nine months now since she was able to get on a plane in Tehran and come home after six years of detention, an ordeal that began when she was arrested at an airport in 2016 after a trip to Iran to see her parents with her then toddler daughter, Gabriela.

By the time Nazanin was released, Gabriella was eight years old.

And with the events of the last three months, the protests in Iran,

Nazanin's thoughts have often been with those who are demanding greater freedom in the country of her birth

and in some cases

paying the ultimate price because there are protesters who have been executed in recent weeks

for taking part in those demonstrations. For her guest-edited program, BBC Persians Golnush

Golshani spoke to the families of political prisoners.

A mother bangs on the gaze of a prison in Iran.

She shouts, release her, or I'll break down this door.

This is the anger and desperation that thousands of families are going through since the biggest protest movement in more than four decades

erupted against the religious rulers.

It all started in September when a young Kurdish woman

was killed after being detained by the morality police

for allegedly not wearing her headscarf properly.

Young men and women took to the streets across Iran chanting woman life freedom,

and mass arrests swiftly followed.

A few cars appeared in front of our house and from what I heard, they blindfolded Elham and took her away.

Mourgán Modarasi is not sure who these men were or how her younger sister Elham was involved in the protests.

She lives abroad and her family were reluctant to tell her much.

My brother is was very anxious. I could hear it in his voice. Whenever I called, he said,

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