Pajamas Media presented exclusive video smuggled out of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport of Iranian dissident Zahra Kamalfar and her two children who had then been trapped in the airport’s transit area - forced to drink and bathe from the toilets - ... Kamalfar had escaped Iran with her family during a prison furlough and was fighting extradition back to the Islamic Republic while seeking political asylum in other countries.

Incredible as it may seem - despite efforts by the United Nations Refugee Committee, the European Human Rights Court and lawyers and activists worldwide - Kamalfar and her family are still trapped in the same airport transit area...months later.

Russian authorities have not given them the normal housing usually offered those awaiting asylum judgments and, according to Pajamas Media sources, are making life even more uncomfortable than it was for the political refugees, who have been finding it more difficult than before to obtain simple survival tools like blankets.

Hengameh Afshar - talk show hostess for satellite station Tasvir Iran - who has spoken directly with Kamalfar - told Pajamas Media Russian authorities have evidently directed airport personnel to ignore the family and not even to speak with them.

The long ordeal of Zahra Kamalfar and her family in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport - often discussed on this site - is finally over...Kamalfar will not be returned to Iran, as Russian authorities were threatening to do, but will receive refugee status in Canada.

...Canada finally issued the refugee status to Zahra and her children and that they will be leaving Moscow on Wednesday, March 14 with final destination, Vancouver on March 15 to resettle there.