In 1981, the height of Ireland's "Troubles," eighteen-year-old Fergus is distracted from his upcoming A-level exams by his imprisoned brother's hunger strike, the stress of being a courier for Sinn Fein, and dreams of a murdered girl whose body he discovered in a bog.
The author describes the torture and pain she suffered as a political prisoner in Iran's notorious Evin prison during the early days of Ayatollah Khomeini's brutal Islamic revolution, her sentence of death for not releasing the names of her friends, and her forced relationship with one of her interrogators who eventually saves her life.
detainees, secret imprisonment, and the "War on Terror"
Meeropol, Rachel
2005
A collection of writings in which some of the thousands of men, women, and children being held in indefinite detention in the United States recount their impressions of America's War on Terror.
A talented art student at the Academy of Fine Arts finds his life changed when he is labeled a counter-revolutionary and exiled during the Cultural Revolution in 1960s China.
Examines this organization's work on behalf of political prisoners in Brazil, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, West Germany, China, Central African Republic, Tanzania, U.S.S.R., etc.
Because of the moral stand taken by her father, a newspaper editor who has persistently attacked the military dictator ruling their Latin American country, Marta and her family find themselves prisoners of the government.
Presents a collection of documents and reports in which U.S. government officials wrote to prepare the way for the interrogation and torture in Afghanistan, Guantanamo, and Abu Ghraib prison.
