Letters to my torturer : love, revolution, and imprisonment in Iran /

Letters to my torturer : love, revolution, and imprisonment in Iran /

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Author / Creator:	Asadi, Houshang, 1950-
Imprint:	Oxford ; New York : Oneworld, c2010.
Description:	x, 325 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Asadi, Houshang, -- 1950- Asadi, Houshang, -- 1950- Political prisoners -- Iran -- Biography. Torture victims -- Iran -- Biography. Journalists -- Iran -- Biography. Torture -- Iran. Journalists. Political prisoners. Politics and government. Torture. Torture victims. Iran -- Politics and government -- 1979-1997. Iran. Biography.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8112698

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ISBN:	9781851687503 1851687505 9781851687831 (export pbk.) 1851687831 (export pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. Translation, Nushin Arbabzadah.
Summary:	Houshang Asadi was a journalist, writer, and translator who, under the Shah's regime, was a prison cellmate of Ali Khamenei (appointed successor to the Ayatollah Khomeini). After Asadi's arrest in 1983 in a crackdown on opposition parties, the prominent Iranian journalist spent the next six years being brutally tortured by "Brother Hamid." "After 682 days in solitary confinement, subjected to every deprivation, my 'confessions' were used, in a show trial lasting just six minutes, to sentence me to fifteen years in prison," the author recounts. Yet he was released with other surviving political prisoners on the anniversary of the revolution in 1989, and was able to escape Iran in 2003, living in exile since then. This book is a series of letters addressed to his torturer.

Table of Contents:

Preface
1. Two Articles of the Constitution
2. Iran of Those Days: The Age of Compassion
3. Kissing the Hand of Khomeini
4. In the Shah's Prison with Mr Khamenei
5. Playing "Full or Empty" with Mehdi Karroubi
6. As Always There's a Woman Involved...
7. How I became a Spy for MI6
8. Bakhtiar's Le Monde, Khomeini's Sandals of Despotism
9. Khamenei-Kianuri: Political Ping-pong
10. I used to be Ahmadinejad's Torturer!
11. Kabul a Few Days after the Red Army's Arrival
12. Defending Khomeini in the Heart of Moscow
13. Visiting the Dead
14. Drinking Hard Liquor in the Islamic Torture Chamber
15. Woof, Woof. I am a Spy
16. The Coup and the Bullshitters
17. The Night of the Coup
18. Return from the Grave
19. My Wife's Voice and her Eyes
20. Sex in the Torture Chamber
21. Goodbye to Moshtarek Prison, Hello to Evin
22. Ghezel Hesar Prison and Stalin's Massacre
23. Purgatory in Hell
24. Genocide in the Islamic Republic
25. Gallows and Mass Murder
26. Iran of Today: The Reign of Thugs
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