Letters to My Torturer Love, Revolution, and Imprisonment in Iran
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Houshang Asadi
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- 9781851688005
- 01 mei 2011
- 325 pagina's
Houshang Asadi
Houshang Asadi werd in 1950 geboren in Teheran. Voor de Islamitische Revolutie was hij vele jaren redacteur van Kayhan, het grootste dagblad van Iran. Vervolgens was hij twaalf jaar hoofdredacteur van Gozaresh Film, het grootste filmblad van het land. Asadi schreef romans, toneelstukken, filmscenario's en vertaalde literaire meesterwerken van onder anderen Gabriel Garcia Marquez en T.S. Eliot in het Perzisch. Asadi woont nu met zijn vrouw in ballingschap in Parijs, waar hij de invloedrijke nieuwssite Rooz Online heeft opgezet. Op bol.com vind je alle boeken van Houshang Asadi, waaronder het nieuwste boek van Houshang Asadi.
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Prominent Iranian journalist and political activist, Houshang Asadi was used to being arrested. This time, however, was different. Little did he know in 1983 he would spend the next six years being brutally, mindlessly tortured by the very people he supported. Brother Hamid, Asadi's torturer, stopped at nothing to extract his 'confessions'.
Pushed blindfolded into an unmarked car, prominent Iranian journalist Houshang Asadi was convinced there had been a mistake. As a political activist during the Shah’s rule, being arrested was a frequent inconvenience, but as a supporter of the Islamic Revolution he expected things to be different. After all, he considered himself a close friend of Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran’s current Supreme Leader, with whom he had shared a cramped prison cell in the early 1970s.
But he was wrong. For over two years he was kept in solitary confinement in one of the most infamous prisons in Tehran, suffering inhuman degradations and brutal, mindless torture at the hands of a man who introduced himself as ‘Brother Hamid’. A man without whose permission he couldn’t eat, sleep, receive medical care, or go to the toilet. A man who knew no limits when it came to extracting ‘confessions’: suspended from the ceiling, beaten, and forced to bark like a dog, Asadi became a spy for the Russians, for the British – for anyone.
Narrowly escaping execution as the government unleashed a bloody pogrom against political prisoners that left thousands dead, he was hauled before a sham court and sentenced to fifteen years. In exile, tormented by nightmares and flashbacks, Asadi’s first attempt at recording his experiences resulted in a heart attack. Here at last he confronts his torturer one last time, speaking for those whose voices will never be heard, and provides a chilling glimpse into the heart of Iran and the practice of state-sponsored justice.
Pushed blindfolded into an unmarked car, prominent Iranian journalist Houshang Asadi was convinced there had been a mistake. As a political activist during the Shah’s rule, being arrested was a frequent inconvenience, but as a supporter of the Islamic Revolution he expected things to be different. After all, he considered himself a close friend of Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran’s current Supreme Leader, with whom he had shared a cramped prison cell in the early 1970s.
But he was wrong. For over two years he was kept in solitary confinement in one of the most infamous prisons in Tehran, suffering inhuman degradations and brutal, mindless torture at the hands of a man who introduced himself as ‘Brother Hamid’. A man without whose permission he couldn’t eat, sleep, receive medical care, or go to the toilet. A man who knew no limits when it came to extracting ‘confessions’: suspended from the ceiling, beaten, and forced to bark like a dog, Asadi became a spy for the Russians, for the British – for anyone.
Narrowly escaping execution as the government unleashed a bloody pogrom against political prisoners that left thousands dead, he was hauled before a sham court and sentenced to fifteen years. In exile, tormented by nightmares and flashbacks, Asadi’s first attempt at recording his experiences resulted in a heart attack. Here at last he confronts his torturer one last time, speaking for those whose voices will never be heard, and provides a chilling glimpse into the heart of Iran and the practice of state-sponsored justice.
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