A State of Fear
Dr. Reza Ghaffari, "A State of Fear"
English | 2012 | pages: 308 | ISBN: 1843583968 | EPUB | 0,4 mb
English | 2012 | pages: 308 | ISBN: 1843583968 | EPUB | 0,4 mb
A prominent Iranian political prisoner tells his story from the time of his arrest to his eventual escape a decade later Dr. Reza Ghaffari was a professor at the University of Tehran until his 1981 arrest for suspicion of being a member of a banned socialist group. This account of his experiences through 10 years of torture and as a witness to—and near victim of—prison massacres offers unparalleled insight into the torturous treatment of political prisoners who oppose the Iranian regime. Nothing written in English or in Persian has so comprehensively and movingly portrayed prison conditions and the strength of those suffering them—not merely a catalogue of atrocities, it is also a tale of triumph for integrity and the human spirit in the face of the utmost degradation. In 1999 the Iranian authorities came looking for Dr. Ghaffari in London and he was moved to a "safe house" by MI6 where
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