activists and independent reports said re-kabi was forced back to iran and could be jailed.tests were sparked by the death of mahsa amini, after her arrest for dress code violations. a new report says afghanistan's ruling taliban tied up and executed 27 men last month -- in a hunt for resistance fighters. the open-source afghan witness project verified a video showing taliban fighters firing into one group of men for 20 seconds. the group calls the killings a -- quote -- orchestrated purge. the taliban has claimed the men were killed in battle. back in this country. the french cement company lafarge pleaded guilty in new york to paying millions of dollars to the islamic state terrorist group. the payments ensured that isis would let a lafarge plant in syria remain open. the company now faces nearly $780 million in u.s. penalties. president biden vowed today that his top priority will be legalizing abortion nationwide if democrats keep control of congress. the president spoke in washington 3 weeks before the midterm elections. he said everything depends on sending more democr

what i didn't know is that one of the students in the class, kabi, r, in arabic, it means big and that's his nickname. knew who i was listening because of -- he had heard me on a station out of new york and he had gone around and recruited the most talented writers in the prison. so when i got those first scenes back. i had 20 students and i brought them back to princeton with that kind of musty smell all handwritten online paper that -- on # line paper that the note, the prison, i ran into several scenes that were just remarkable and lyrical, powerful, and this happened the next week and the week after that. and i said to my wife, on you eunice, who is a professional actor, graduate of juilliard. i showed her this and went back the class and proposed that we take these scenes and i would kind of serve as she editor and i would meddlesome scenes and everything would have to be cleared with the class but it was not premeditated. it was completely organic. in prison, you have to build these emotionally protective walls. but when people began to write about their trauma, their suffering, th