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Escape from Iran
's prison by Massoumeh Raouf, published on February 3, 2022 by Éditions Balland.
His favorite quote:
“How can one live in such conditions for days, weeks, months, years?
It is not necessary to describe the sanitary state of the prisons, given the population density in such a restricted and closed environment.
In reality, neglecting the hygiene of the prison and the state of health of the detainee was only an additional means of pressure and torture…”
Why this book?
Because History is often anonymous and human dramas
fade over time.
This book is a testimony not to forget and as its author confided to us: "I also wrote to draw the attention of public opinion to the crimes against humanity that took place in Iran, and which are still repeated today.
Because the same regime is in place, the same actors are in power.
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Because it is also a book that speaks of a tireless fight
and hope in the struggle that Massoumeh Raouf carries within her: “I believe in justice and human values.
It's universal.
The will of one who believes in high ideals and human values is infinite.
It is these wills that change the course of history”.
A book that talks about his fellow prisoners, with very beautiful portraits, touching, sensitive and united in difficult internment conditions.
Because human trajectories are stories of commitments
but also personal stories, of families, and in this book we share the story of this family marked by the Tehran regime.
It is above all a question of the disappearance of the younger brother who remains very present throughout the story: “He was 16 years old, and was arrested before my escape, but accused of complicity in my escape, was again questioned and tortured.
It weighed very heavily on me.
I tell his story in my first book in French: “A little prince in the land of the mullahs”.
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The essentials in 2 minutes
The plot.
Because she was a supporter of the People's Mujahideen, Massoumeh Raouf was arrested and imprisoned in Iran after Khomeini took power.
She details her months of imprisonment in appalling conditions between torture and deprivation.
Characters.
Massoumeh Raouf, his parents, his older brother Mahmoud, his younger brother Ahmad, his fellow prisoners and his executioners.
Places.
The Revolutionary Guard prison in Racht, Evin, Tehran.
The time.
1981-1982.
The author.
Massoumeh Raouf is an activist journalist who fights the mullahs' regime.
In this struggle, she lost her parents and her younger brother, whose martyrdom she recounted in a comic strip in 2018, "A little prince in the land of the mullahs".
This book was read with
a deep feeling of revolt, helplessness in the face of the intolerable and admiration for this woman who managed to escape and rebuild her life elsewhere despite her injuries.
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