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When I was 16 years old, in January 1982 in Evin Prison in Tehran, Iran, two men took me to a small room and tied me to a bare wooden bed. I was lying down on my stomach. One of them lashed the soles of my feel with a length of cable. With every strike, I felt like my whole nervous system would explode and then would magically be put back together again, ready for the next strike. I hoped to lose consciousness, but it never happened. Later, I was raped over and over again. My crime was having been outspoken against the Iranian government in my high school and demanding a better education.

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