Bahman Ahmadi Amouee
Bahman Ahmadi Amouee (born c. 1969) is an Iranian journalist and active critic of the Iranian government’s economic policies. He was imprisoned in the aftermath of the highly contested 2009 presidential election in Iran for his works as a journalist. Being accused of political and ideological charges, he served five years and four months in prison. Amouee has worked for many of Iran’s major pro-reform newspapers and has been always criticizing the Islamic Republic’s approaches in different fields of politics and economy as well as its approach in treating the political prisoners. Bahman Ahmadi Amouee is the author of a few famous books in the field of economy in Iran. He was the winner of the Hellmann-Hammett award in 2011 and the Oxfam Novib/PEN Award for Freedom of Expression in 2015.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Foreword: Love in the Time of Despotism
by Abbas Milani
Preface
1. Cramped Cells and Incongruous Inmates
2. Mordad 28 (August 19), the Sound of
the Coup is Echoing in My Ear
3. Red Alert
4. The Wall, the Moon, and the Barbed Wire
5. Lucky Diehards
6. Prisoner Number Fourteen
7. Amnesia and Habituation
8. Fidel Castro and Nader and Simin: A Separation
9. Hunger Strike
10. Melancholy Mondays
11. New Year, New Tears, New Smiles
12. Prison Despondencies
13. The Crane
14. The Dark Past
15. You are Going to Jail
16. Evin’s Graffiti
17. Open Envelopes
18. Categories of Political Prisoners in Iran
19. These Old Men of the Rajaee-Shahr Prison
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