Woman’s struggle in Iran is the story of my imprisonment for eight years by the Islamic government of Iran. Continue reading Woman’s Struggle In Iran; A Prison Memoir
Tag: autobiography
Working with Refugees
For the Saturday Forensic Forum 2013
I was born in Iran. I first came to the UK in 1978, at the age of 20, in order to
study. When the revolution broke out the following year I returned to Iran for a
brief visit to my family, not realising that it would be 15 years before I would
come to Britain again – as an exile. In post-revolutionary Iran I became active in
the field of women’s rights and civil rights, as a result of which I was arrested in
1982. I was tortured and sentenced to execution. My life was saved by the
intervention of my father, who managed to get my sentence reduced to
imprisonment. I was released in 1990 after spending eight years in prison. Continue reading Working with Refugees
A War Against Womanhood
Last week I went to the Whittington Hospital in London. I waited in the reception room for my turn. A mother and her daughter were there waiting. Both of them were veiled and I saw my own childhood in this woman’s child. Continue reading A War Against Womanhood