Jailed at Home, Tailed Abroad, Iranian Writer Talks Sex, Voting
One night after giving a speech in Ottawa, Iranian writer Shahrnush Parsipur was jolted from sleep. She suddenly remembered that the familiar-looking woman in the back of the room had been one of her prison guards in Iran “who one day had for no reason showered me with vulgar insults.” She suspected she was being watched. Harassment and prison terms drove Parsipur, 67, out of Iran in 1994. She was first jailed, in 1976, for protesting the execution of several artists and writers. Her longest prison stretch lasted almost five years. She has ...
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