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[University of Toronto Magazine] Prisoners in Tehran | First-Person Account from a Political ...: I was arrested in Tehran in 1982 at the age of 16 and spent more than two years suspended between life and death in Evin prison. (I had asked the calculus teacher to teach calculus instead of propaganda, written articles against the government in my school newspaper and attended protest rallies.) When it comes to the treatment of political prisoners, nothing much has changed in that country since then.

[Centennial Journalism's Weblog] “Prisoner of Tehran” author Marina Nemat says Iranian-Canadians ...: Having grown up a Christian in Tehran, Iran, she was attending a Zoroastrian high school when the Ayatollah Khomeini took power in the early 1980s.

[Lybrary.com ebooks] Prisoner of Tehran: A Memoir: Sentenced to death for refusing to give up the names of her friends, she was minutes from being executed when Ali, using his family connections to Ayatollah Khomeini, plucked her from the firing squad and had her sentence reduced to life in prison. But he exacted a shocking price for saving her life -- with a dizzying combination of terror and tenderness, he asked her to marry him and abandon her Christian faith for Islam.

[U of T Bookstore Reading Series] U of T Bookstore Reading Series » Prisoner of Tehran, Marina Nemat: In 1982, sixteen-year-old Marina Nemat was arrested on false charges by Iranian Revolutionary Guards and tortured in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison. At a time when most teenaged girls are choosing their prom dresses, Nemat was having her feet beaten by men with cables and listening to gunshots as her friends were being executed.

[Everett Public Library - New Books] Prisoner of Tehran : a memoir by Nemat, Marina.: Nemat tells the heart-pounding story of her life as a young girl in Iran during the early days of Ayatollah Khomeini's brutal Islamic Revolution--arrested, tortured, and sentenced to death for "political crimes.

[openDemocracy] Iran: what happened, where now? | openDemocracy: A foreign assault, which would unite all Iranians behind a power they hate, could yet give it an infusion of strength - all the more reason for the west to ignore Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's provocations, and oblige his government to face the people without false comfort. Mir-Hossein’s Moussavi’s demands offer the regime an opportunity to restore governance to a path of legitimacy.

[Women's eNews] Memoir Goes Behind Iran's Prison Gates | Womens eNews: Nemat said that Ali, like her, was a good person who had been imprisoned and tortured, but he chose to focus his subsequent hatred and anger on those who were against his religion or beliefs. "We're all in danger of becoming fundamentalists, whether we're Christian, Muslim, et cetera, when we allow ourselves to become blinded by basic emotions," she said.

[Iranian.com - Nothing is Sacred] A Place Called Evin | Iranian.com: Iranian American academics who visited Iran or went to live in Iran and were imprisoned at Evin include Dairush Zahedi , a professor at the University of California, Berkeley in (2003), Ramin Jahanbegloo (2006) Ali Shakeri, and Haleh Esfandiari (2008) who spent 100 days in Evin and most recently, Kian Tajbakhsh ( jailed first in 2007 and again arrested in 2009-present.) As one news report said: “Kian Tajbaksh was arrested at his home in Tehran on May 11, 2007, to be incarcerated, detained, and put under house arrest in 2007. He was held without charge in Evin Prison for more than four months.”

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