Until we are free : my fight for human rights in Iran

Summary: For several years the Iranian government tried everything to silence Shirin Ebadi: They arrested her, bugged her phones, attacked her home, shadowed her everywhere she went, seized her office, and nailed a death threat to her front door. But nothing could stop Ebadi from her work as a human rights lawyer defending women, children, and the persecuted in Iran. After several years of harassment and intimidation, the Iranian spy services turned their sights onto Ebadi's only weakness: those she loved the most, her family. First the authorities detained her daughter, then they laid a trap for her husband straight out of a spy novel. The Iranian government took everything from Shirin Ebadi--her marriage, her home, her property, her bank accounts, they even seized her Nobel Prize--but the one thing they could not take was her spirit and her desire for a better future for her country. For the first time she's telling the full story of how the government of Iran tried to destroy her, and almost succeeded.

Record details

ISBN: 9780812998870
Physical Description: print
regular print
xiii, 286 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Random House, 2016.
Copyright: ©2016.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Prologue: Death threat -- Intimidation -- A wedding -- The man who wanted to buy a centrifuge -- A midnight visit -- In the shadow of ahmadinejad -- The women who dared rise up -- Spies on the doorstep -- A fatwa to defend -- Besieged -- A mother's test -- The farewell -- The stolen election -- Alone in the world -- Betrayal -- Life without a home -- The forged passport -- Dispossession -- The spring that led to winter -- Bloodbath as lesson -- The suspicious neighbor.