Fateme Ekhtesari facts for kids

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Ekhtesari in 2018
Native name	فاطمه اختصاری
Born	Fateme Ekhtesari 1986 (age 37–38) Kashmar, Iran
Occupation	Poet songwriter criticism writer
Language	Persian
Nationality	Iranian, Norwegian
Education	Midwifery
Genre	Postmodern Ghazal
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Fateme Ekhtesari, also Fatemeh Ekhtesari, (born 1986) is an Iranian poet. Ekhtesari lived in Karaj and she writes in Persian. In 2013, she appeared at the poetry festival in Gothenburg (Göteborgs poesifestival). After she arrived back in Iran she was imprisoned and later released on bail. Her verdict came in 2015 when she was sentenced to 99 lashes and 11.5 years imprisonment for crimes against the Iranian government, for immoral behaviour and blasphemy.

Biography

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Her first collection of poems called Yek bahse feministi ghabl az pokhtane sibzaminiha was published in 2010. It was later retracted and the publication ended when it was discovered that she had filled in censored words by hand before the publication of her work. Rakhs roye sime khardar, her second book, is still waiting on approval to be published by the Iranian government as of October 2015.

She was the chief editor of the postmodern magazine Hamin farad bud which has since been cancelled. Ekhtesari participated in a project called En motståndsrörelse på mitt skrivbord where six Persian and six Swedish poets met. It was documented by the magazine Kritiker in 2013.

The rapper Shahin Najafi, whose music has been banned in Iran, has used some of Ekhtesari's poems in his songs.

Escape

In January 2016, Ekhtesari told the Associated Press that she and Moosavi had fled Iran. For safety reasons, she declined to provide any more details.