With just weeks left on her student visa, one Iranian woman fears she will be executed if she has to return | Australian immigration and asylum

When bullets fired by Iran’s paramilitary force were sprayed at her home during a 2022 protest, Atefeh* realised her country was in a “hostage situation”.

“I couldn’t breathe any more. I was losing my mind and I was traumatised,” the activist says.

“I thought, ‘OK, you are shooting…