vice president shahindokht molaverfdi often warned that the families would be robbed of their fathers without change. there is national pressure. to commute death sentences for drug smugglers into prison sentences. >> the justice commission is presenting a draft law to parliament. the experts will now grapple with it. we hope that a decision will be made as quickly as possible. reporter: we asked whether she knew about the planned law that could possibly spare her husband's life. >> i have heard about it. but they began hanging men in my husband's prison cell about a month ago, one after the other. four or five other men were in the same unit until just recently. now, they have all been hanged. reporter parwaneh tells us that : she prays every day for her husband back again, but she has already lost hope. most likely, she will have to raise her two small children on her own. host: and now to our "global ideas" series, where we meet people working hard to protect our planet's plants and animals. this time we're in uganda, home to around 5,000 chimpanzees. these intelligent creatures ar