Then They Came for Me: A story of injustice and survival in Iran's most notorious prison - Softcover

Maziar Bahari

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9781851688937: Then They Came for Me: A story of injustice and survival in Iran's most notorious prison

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ISBN 10: 1851688935 ISBN 13: 9781851688937

Publisher: Oneworld Publications, 2012

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Maziar Bahari left London in June 2009 to cover Iran's presidential election, believing he d return to his pregnant fianc�e, Paola, in just a few days, a week at most. In fact he would spend the next three months in Iran's most notorious prison, enduring brutal interrogation sessions while terrible threats were made to his family. Gripping and masterfully told, Then They Came for Me delves into Iran's history of oppression, and details how the democratic impulses of the youth are violently oppressed by a government that grows ever more totalitarian. An intimate account of contemporary Iran, it is also the moving story of one family's extraordinary courage in the face of repression.

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A wonderful and profoundly intimate memoir of journalist Bahari's false imprisonment inIran. Filled with injustice and survival, this is ialso an intimate portrait of Iran exposing the contradictions that lie at the heart of the Ahmadinejad's paranoiod regime. (bio)

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'A profound, yet intimate insight into modern day Iran. This is a book that reveals both the beauty, history and love that is Iran, and the horror and hatred that infects some of those who seek to dominate it. A wonderful book.' --Jon Snow, Channel 4 News

'What makes Bahari's account so readable is not only his sense of fair play - he tries to understand the motivations of the regime, and of his torturer - but also his keen sense of fun and humour.' --The Sunday Times

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