Hassan Darvish And Still Lives Our Story (Memories of an Iranian Political Prisoner) Hassan Darvish has recounted his prison memoirs in a creative and unclassical way. He was imprisoned by the Islamic Republic of Iran from 1982 to 1984 in “Vakil Abad” and the “Central Committee” detention center in the…
Nasser Mohajer Crime & Punishment (On the Assassination of Dissidents in Iran)This book comprises two essays and one interview. The interview and one of the essays describe in great details how Parvaneh Eskandari, Daryoush Foruhar, Majid Sharif, Mohammad Mokhtari and Mohanmad Jafar Pooyandeh were butchered and murdered based on a…
(Bijan Jazani & Hassan Zia Zarifi in Military Court)
A case study of the arrest and trial of Bijan Jazani, Hassan Zia Zarifi and other twelve members of a newly formed revolutionary group which later became one of the two pillars of the Iranian Peoples Feda’i Guerrillas. This exceptional trial that lasted from Dec. 30, 1968 till Feb. 27, 1969 is considered as one of the most important political trials of the 1960’s in Iran.
Compiled by Fariba Iraj Five young women from one of the provinces in Iran, whose husbands were either imprisoned or executed during the rampant repression of the 1980s, recounted their traumatic experiences with Fariba Iraj. First one on one, and then in a group everyone shared their stories. The following…
In this two-volume book, thirty men and women of all ages and walks of life with diverse political and religious believes talk about their motivations for fleeing Iran. The protagonists have fled Iran through different borders, seeking asylum in different countries.
In this two-volume book, thirty men and women of all ages and walks of life with diverse political and religious believes talk about their motivations for fleeing Iran. The protagonists have fled Iran through different borders, seeking asylum in different countries.
This book is a collection of two volumes which aims to provide a comprehensive account of the prison system and the experience of incarceration in the Islamic Republic period. From 1979 to the present day, the prison system has been a continuous element in the contention between the state and dissident forces, as well as contrast within the state elites themselves. Nearly all political movements which have been active in Iran during these past four decades have experienced jail as an essential element of their activities and very existence. This experience has been defined by the worst forms of imposition of prison practices, from the extensive use of torture to obtain confessions, through to systematic extra judicial capital punishment, especially in 1981 to 1988. The present compilation seeks, at times starkly, to raise awareness on these issues for a wider Persian audience. Its editor, Nasser Mohajer, is of the belief that the persecution of individuals on political and expression grounds will continue as long as the general awareness of related prison practices will remain limited.
The Book of Prison (An Anthology of Prison Life in the Islamic Republic of Iran) Vol. 2 Nasser Mohajer has opined that “A vital task for those who challenge despotism is to fight against forgetfulness. A cornerstone of Resistance is to resist forgetting which motivated us to record the defiance…
The “Bereft of life, in hope of a fresh start” ode is our prominent poet visit of the Slaughterhouse/Abattoir and his versified elegy for the/that Massacre in a dramatic style.
