Shahla Sherkat

Founder and publisher of Zanan (Women) magazine, Shahla Sherkat regularly features topics that are rarely, if ever, aired in public. Still, her cutting-edge magazine has survived for a decade, in part because she and her staff scrupulously comply with dress codes and other government mandates . for the most part. She was recently arrested for attending a controversial conference in Berlin.

......"I'm just a journalist and I don't do anything special other than that we have gathered a group here that are all working together for women."