Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran by Ervand Abrahamian

Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran

Ervand Abrahamian

284 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative reflective slow-paced
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The role of torture in recent Iranian politics is the subject of Ervand Abrahamian's important and disturbing book. Although Iran officially banned torture in the early twentieth century, Abrahamian provides documentation of its use under the Shah...

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