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100	1		_aAsadi, Houshang. _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aLETTER to my TORTURER : _bLOVE, REVOLUTION, AND IMPRISONMENT IN IRAN
264		1	_aCornwall, UK : _bOneworld Publications ; _c2012.
300			_ax, 325 pages ; _c23 cm.
336			_2rdacontent _atext
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume
505			_aCover; Dedication; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. Two Articles of the Constitution; 2. Iran of Those Days: The Age of Compassion; 3. Kissing the Hand of Khomeini; 4. In the Shah's Prison with Mr Khamenei; 5. Playing "Full or Empty" with Mehdi Karroubi; 6. As Always There's a Woman Involved ... ; 7. How I became a Spy for MI6; 8. Bakhtiar's Le Monde, Khomeini's Sandals of Despotism; 9. Khamenei-Kianuri: Political Ping-pong; 10. I used to be Ahmadinejad's Torturer!; 11. Kabul a Few Days after the Red Army's Arrival; 12. Defending Khomeini in the Heart of Moscow. 13. Visiting the Dead14. Drinking Hard Liquor in the Islamic Torture Chamber; 15. Woof, Woof. I am a Spy; 16. The Coup and the Bullshitters; 17. The Night of the Coup; 18. Return from the Grave; 19. My Wife's Voice and her Eyes; 20. Sex in the Torture Chamber; 21. Goodbye to Moshtarek Prison, Hello to Evin; 22. Ghezel Hesar Prison and Stalin's Massacre; 23. Purgatory in Hell; 24. Genocide in the Islamic Republic; 25. Gallows and Mass Murder; 26. Iran of Today: The Reign of Thugs; Endnotes.
520			_aHoushang Asadi was a journalist, writer, and translator who, under the Shah's regime, was a prison cellmate of Ali Khamenei (appointed successor to the Ayatollah Khomeini). After Asadi's arrest in 1983 in a crackdown on opposition parties, the prominent Iranian journalist spent the next six years being brutally tortured by "Brother Hamid." "After 682 days in solitary confinement, subjected to every deprivation, my 'confessions' were used, in a show trial lasting just six minutes, to sentence me to fifteen years in prison," the author recounts. Yet he was released with other surviving political prisoners on the anniversary of the revolution in 1989, and was able to escape Iran in 2003, living in exile since then. This book is a series of letters addressed to his torturer.
586			_aWinner of the 2011 Human Rights Book Award.
650	1	0	_aJournalists _vBiography. _zIran
650	2	0	_aTorture victims _vBiography. _zIran
651		0	_aIran _xPolitics and government _y1979-1997
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