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Mansoureh Behkish has been banned from leaving Iran and summoned to court for her role in founding the “Mothers of Laleh Park,” also known as the “Mourning Mothers of Iran,” a group formed by mothers whose children were killed in the Islamic Republic’s massacre of political prisoners in the summer of 1988.

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Promote new hybrid practices that result in new categories of narrative-oriented digital artefacts and devices that link the virtual domain of digital memories with the material expressive realm of human life and can be used in storytelling. These artefacts are created through a combination of 3D fabrication techniques and digital design that makes use of sensor and actuators.

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Remembering the deported mothers.

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Writer Gundega Repše: "Everything was here. It was there, there and there, all the way to the horizon to the East and the North. The steppe and taiga, Siberia with its swamps and permafrost throughout the majestic distances of Russia and the Soviet Union. Electrification and gulags throughout the huge country. I knew that I had visited the country of victors, and I looked not just for traces of trophies or the corpses of or monuments to the tyrants. I know that the poor victors must live with knowledge about all of those whom they killed. The visitors from Latvia are former victims who have overcome themselves and became survivors. My mama Ilga said that the greatest crime at the gulags was that people were turned into animals, with an amputation of any spiritual energy. Not everyone who was humiliated to the level of an animal could recover and become human beings. Good Siberian friends who were like friends allowed them to overcome a code of pain which can never be healed. I have come here in my mother's place, and the key to the code is nearby, in my heart." 2013, Latvian National TV Audience Award "Golden Wave", The TV documentary film "Land of Childhood Siberia"