Article: PRISONER OF TEHRAN

PRISONER OF TEHRAN

MARINA NEMAT

Penguin Books

REVIEW BY IRENE D'SOUZA

Prisoner of Tehran is the compelling memoir of a 16-year-old girl detained at Iran's notorious Evin prison in 1982, the heyday of the Ayatollah Khomeini's regime. This quintessentially surreal modern-day journey into Dante's Inferno is the harrowing story of a young woman penalized for being young, intelligent, Christian and female.

Marina Nemat challenged her school authority for preaching fundamentalism in a secular school. As a result she was arrested on false charges, tortured to reveal classmates' names and sentenced to death for refusing to do so. But she was spared because one of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, ...

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