The Price of Being Human

Autor*innen

• Azam Hadj Heydari

Parameter

• Biografien
• Wahre Geschichten

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This book is for anyone who would like to know the truth of life in prison under the Iranian regime and to really understand the courage and perseverance of the many who resisted and continue to resist their barbaric reign of terror. There is a simplicity and an honesty about this account of a young woman growing up in a family where the men, her father, brothers, cousins were seduced by Khomeini's brand of Islamic fundamentalism, which has misogyny at its core.. When she defied their control and went onto the streets to join the resistance movement, using peaceful means to seek basic rights and freedom of expression, she was arrested and found her family among her jailers and torturers. Azam tells of the most brutal torture techniques, used in Iran's prisons deliberately to break the spirit of those who opposed the regime, in such a way that, while you feel the pain and horror, you also deeply understand the dedication and commitment to the noble cause of freedom that renders the torturers impotent to achieve their objective.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Einband: Paperback