Lively discussion with Glass of Reason award winner Amiri

The award-winning journalist Natalie Amiri is considered one of the best experts on the situation in Iran and has journalistically accompanied how individual reform movements there developed into a comprehensive protest movement. The German-Iranian receives the Glass of Reason for her commitment and especially for the humanistic view of her reporting.

Students of the University of Kassel, together with the Kassel Youth Symposium, had the opportunity to meet Amiri and talk to her at an event on October 7 in the university's Gießhaus. Other participants in the discussion were University President Prof. Dr. Ute Clement and Prof. Dr. Wilfried Sommer (Board Glass of Reason).

"Ms. Amiri has experienced courage in Iran. And she has been infected by this courage," Sommer introduced the event. He continued, "Especially since yesterday, we can get an idea of what the Nobel Peace Prize means - thanks to Ms. Amiri's reporting."

"It is my mission to report on these people, on this struggle, their struggle for freedom," Natalie Amiri said. She emphasizes right at the beginning of the interview, "Iranians are saying in the streets 'We stick together!' And that's what really scares the regime."

The journalist also had a clear answer to the university president's question about why Iranians are not afraid: "They are not afraid because they have nothing left to lose."