After the anti-Ahmadinejad protests ensuing with the presidential elections of 12 June 2009, the repression experienced by media professionals is stepped up. Ehsan Maleki flees Iran in August, spending time in Iraq before eventually finding exile in France. He is one of at least fifty reporters scattered around the world in a similar situationPictured, on the Lac Urmia bridge in north-western Iran (www.emaleki.com/)
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