Showing posts with label Freedom for Iran. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Freedom for Iran. Show all posts

Sunday, September 20, 2015

A Better Future

By Ahmad Rahbar

The bitter winter cold would make one’s bones shiver, and steps taken by legs in the month of December were truly very weak. There was no noise to be heard. Even birds were never heard singing to remind us of the next morning, as the cold winds blew over the fields of firing squads in Kermanshah, western Iran.

The Story of a Woman’s Resistance Who Did Not Succumb to Iran’s Religious Dictatorship

By Assadollah Nabavi

The sound of a woman in pain had me go to the door of my prison cell. Cell number 2 of Semnan Prison in central Iran. It was back in August 1988.
 
The summer of 1988 Iran was the scene of horrific massacres carried out under Khomeini’s religious fatwa against all political prisoners across the country. I was looking down the hallway through the small hatch in my cell. The prison guards were busy taking something away with a cart. I looked more carefully.