Every few years, uprisings erupt across Iran — and each wave of resistance is deeper and more widespread than the one before. People are still risking their lives to stand up to torture and state violence. The regime wants to hide its crackdown from the rest of the world and stop Iranians from organizing. Nasrin Parvaz is a women’s rights activist and torture survivor from Iran. Her books include A Prison Memoir: One Woman’s Struggle in Iran, and the novel The Secret Letters from X to A.
