News at Eleven: "Downtown" meant a tiny cell in Evin prison,

in North Tehran, and "a few questions" meant protracted torture. I found it difficult to believe that my cheerful protests could have roused my interrogators to such violence. Bruised black by fists and boots, my shoulders and arms livid with lash welts, my scalp left bare and bleeding after my hair was shorn, I persisted in thinking, even as I wept and raged at my captors, This is ridiculous!

from The New York Times: Poetry of Protest

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Zarah Ghahramani and Robert Hillman--20070719

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