ITV News spoke to Majid Tavakoli just weeks before he was imprisoned for five years.
Majid Tavakoli is an Iranian political activist who has spent much of his life fighting for a liberal democracy in his country, opposed to the Islamic Republic.
Last year he was put in solitary confinement and interrogated hard, he said, for three months. Then he was sentenced to five years.ITV News' Lucy Watson speaking last month to Iranian women taking up arms or choosing exile for their daughters Here is the full transcript of our interview just a short time ago. A conversation with a man with a longing for democracy that I will never forget.
LUCY: You are about to go back to prison to spend 5 years of your life behind bars why do you carry on with this struggle?It is a hard question to answer. I am committed to proving the truth and show the hardship the Iranian people are enduring. We deserve a better life and people like me are responsible for letting the outside world know what we put up with and what we deserve.
"We don't have political answers for this situation, although lots has changed. The Woman Life Freedom movement has been coming for years. This movement, like all others in Iran, is a political movement, but since it lacks the necessary political strategy post-victory, it will face a serious crisis. "Two, there are now stricter punishments for the bold and brave amongst us. Their national IDs are targeted, their bank accounts, their money is frozen. These punishments can range from confiscating their cars, job deprivation, closing their shops, and making their lives virtually unlivable.
"Iranians are engaged now with civic activism and continue to disobey the clerics, but not as extensively as a year ago. The society is grappling with severe economic crises, some people struggle for so much as a piece of bread.
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