Haleh Esfandiari

My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran (2009)

It’s ludicrous to think that goons of the Islamic Republic of Iran thought they could intimidate a 67-year-old grandmother to confess that she was instigating a revolution. But that’s what they tried. Incarcerated in the notorious Evin prison, she wasted away physically under intense questioning....