Berkeley Arts and Letters (Venue Partner)
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Special Event
Torture in Iran: Houshang Asadi with Nooshabeh Amiri and Jonathan Curiel / Berkeley Arts & Letters at the Hillside Club
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Letters to My Torturer
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Thursday Oct 21, 2010 (7:30pm)
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$6 - $15
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In the tradition of Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Houshang Asadi offers a personal and moving account of his six-year political imprisonment in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Asadi was arrested in 1983 during the fierce clampdown on political parties in post-revolution Iran even though he supported the new Islamic Republic. Little did he know at the time that he would spend the next six years of his life in prison where he would be brutally tortured to extract ‘confessions’ – that he was a spy for the Russians, a spy for Britain, a spy for anyone or anything.
