In the last days of the summer of 1973, Iran was shocked with the arrest of a leftest group of intellectualls. Abbas Samakar was one them. The book is his memoir of his time in prison. (1974-1978)
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Iranian writer, poet, filmmaker and political activist, Abbas Samakar, was born in 1946 in Tehran, Iran. He has been engaged in numerous political activities in his homeland and has spend years in prison before and after the 1978 revolution in Iran.
After early 1980s he was forced to leave the country. At the time, he lives in Germany.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
I wish more people like Samakar would do this kind of work,
By Mohammad Behnam Shadmehr (Saginaw, MI United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Man Yek Shooreshi Hastam (Paperback)
This is an eye witness account of all that happened to Samakar from hours before his arrest in Summer of 1352 (1973) upto his release in Fall of 1357 (1978).Samakar, along with 11 others, were accused of trying to kidnap Shah, Farah, and Reza Pahlavi. Their arrest and subsequent trial was front page news for months. I remember it clearly myself, as it was right around the time I had gotten old enough to start reading daily papers. The heroic defense of Khosrow Golesorkhi, which was broadcasted on Iranian TV, and that of Keramat Daneshian made them legends. Both were subsequently executed. Samakar, Allamehzadeh, and Bathayi who refused to cooperate with savak got life sentences and joined the ranks of most famous political prisoners. The book is an excellent portray of the conditions in Iranian prisons during the reign of Shah; both political and regular as Samakar was "exiled" to regular prisons all around Iran on numerous occasions. The early part of the book is very engaging. Once you start, it is hard to put it down.
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This review is from: Man Yek Shooreshi Hastam (Paperback)
For those of us Iranians, old enough to remember the famous Golesorkhi-Daneshian trial and having had a lasting impression as a result of having watched it on TV, there were always numerous questions.Who were these people? Why did SAVAK allow the trial to be shown on TV? Why did only Golesorkhi and Daneshian put up a resistance? How their resistance turned the SAVAK plot upside down and turned the youth against the regime. This book reveals it all. At times one is really surprised by the naive SAVAK tactics, and by how naive these young people were. How the prisons under the Shah functioned and how adventureous and dedicated the young generation of that time had become. Perhaps not much relevance now, but an enjoyable bedtime reading for those who remember the famous televised trial.
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