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Marina Nemat (Persian: مارینا نِمت, Russian: Марина Немат; born 22 April 1965) is the author of two memoirs about her life growing up in Iran, serving time in Evin Prison for speaking out against the Iranian government, escaping a death sentence and finally fleeing Iran to go and live in Canada.
Alireza Shir Mohammad Ali (Persian: علیرضا شیرمحمدعلی) was an Iranian political prisoner at the Greater Tehran Central Penitentiary (Fashafoyeh Prison). [1] Ali was killed while in prison by the prisoners that were housed in general population on 10 June 2019.
Evin Prison (Persian: زندان اوین, romanized: Zendân-e-Evin) is a prison located in the Evin neighborhood of Tehran, Iran.The prison has been the primary site for the housing of Iran's political prisoners since 1972, before and after the Iranian Revolution, in a purpose-built wing nicknamed "Evin University" due to the high number of students and intellectuals detained there. [3]
The family of a British man being flown out of Iran on Monday in a $6bn (£4.8bn) prisoner swap have spoken of their joy at his release after more than five years in captivity.
Five Americans wrongfully imprisoned in Iran for years have been freed as part of a U.S.-Iran prisoner exchange that gives Tehran access to $6 billion in previously frozen oil revenues.
Five U.S. citizens left Iran and landed in Doha on Monday in a prisoner swap for five Iranians held in the United States and the transfer of $6 billion in Iranian funds in a rare deal between the ...
On Wings of Eagles is a 1983 non-fiction thriller written by British author Ken Follett.Set against the background of the Iranian revolution, it tells a story based on the rescue of Paul Chiapparone and Bill Gaylord from prison in Tehran by a team of Electronic Data Systems executives led by retired Col. Arthur D. Simons.
Five Americans imprisoned in Iran have been placed under house arrest in the first step of a planned prisoner exchange between Tehran and Washington that will include the release of roughly $6 ...