This was an experience of a friend's sister who was asked to go and do contract work. The money kept getting better, the time over there kept getting shorter. She held firm, wouldn't go.
Whatever about the cash the male family member chaperone she would have had to bring was always killing it.
As the media lionises Hickey for his few days in detention, remember most ordinary political prisoners in Iran don't come out of jail to glory and Patreon subs, they come out to a ruined future, if they are lucky enough to come out in one piece.
