A 19 year-old dissident left her hometown where security forces were wreaking death and destruction on protests. She said making the trip could have led to her arrest, but staying home could have proven fatal.

A teenage dissident trailed behind a group of smugglers in the borderlands of western Iran. For three days, Rezan trekked a rocky mountain range and walked through minefields along a winding path forged by seasoned smugglers to circumnavigate the country’s heavily armed Revolutionary Guards. It was a trip too dangerous for respite of much more than a few stolen moments at a time.