Without intervention, Iran will effectively make environmentalism a crime | The Globe and Mail

A court in Tehran will soon decide whether trying to protect the environment is a capital offence in Iran.
Eight members of Iran’s most prominent environmental organization, the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation (PWHF), are being tried for simply conducting surveys of the endangered Asiatic cheetah. Four face the death penalty, including a British-Iranian-American citizen, while the rest face more than a decade in prison.