{"id":229,"date":"2017-05-30T22:26:39","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T19:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/?p=229"},"modified":"2017-05-30T22:26:39","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T19:26:39","slug":"womans-struggle-in-iran-a-prison-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/2017\/05\/30\/womans-struggle-in-iran-a-prison-memoir\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman&#8217;s Struggle In Iran; A Prison Memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Woman&#039;s Struggle In Iran; A Prison Memoir by Nasrin Parvaz\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5sESb8KKmr8?start=56&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Woman\u2019s struggle in Iran is the story of my imprisonment for eight years by the Islamic government of Iran.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In 1979, at the age of 20, I returned from England, where I had been studying. I became a member of a socialist party fighting for a non-Islamic state in which women had the same rights as men. In 1982, while waiting to meet a fellow comrade, I was exposed and arrested by the regime\u2019s secret police. In prison, under torture, I refused to reveal my contacts\u2019 names and addresses.<\/p>\n<p>In prison I was brutally and systematically tortured, threatened with execution, starved and forced to live in appalling, horribly overcrowded conditions. Many of my fellow prisoners were executed; some were driven insane by torture and what we had to endure. Others repented their political beliefs only to find they remained in prison for years before their release. I became seriously ill, and was only saved from dying by the help of a fellow prisoner who was a doctor.<\/p>\n<p>Although I was imprisoned and in the hands of my enemies, they could not arrest my resistance, and neither could torture vanquish my struggle. In resisting the Islamic regime, I was not alone, all the other men and women, imprisoned like me, we were all part of the ultimate victory of humanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woman\u2019s struggle in Iran is the story of my imprisonment for eight years by the Islamic government of Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[13,19,14,25],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-autobiography","tag-book","tag-prison","tag-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasrinparvaz.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}