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Katherine BUTLER
Katherine BUTLER has been Foreign Editor of The Independent since 2007. As well as having responsibility for organising the international news coverage of the daily newspaper, she has reported from places as diverse as South Africa, Sierra Leone, Iran and Sudan. She previously worked as a lead writer and commissioning editor on the paper's Comment pages. Before moving to the newspaper's headquarters in London, she worked as Europe correspondent based in Brussels covering the European Union. |
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Millions of Iranian women took part in or cheered the 1979 revolution that ousted the dictatorship of the Western-backed Shah. But the Islamic regime that took its place repaid them by reducing them legally to second class citizens and denying them some basic human rights. In February 2009, on the 30th anniversary of the Islamic revolution, Katherine Butler became one of the few Western journalists given permission to visit to Iran. She found a post-revolutionary generation of women slowly pushing back the boundaries, taking on the mullahs and patriarchs in every day life. |
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