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i'm hot. it's so stuffy. it's hard to breeze. i'm not well, is it day time night time? time stands still. you've done everything possible to break me to crush my will my fine to silence. you will succeed the my name is and i guess mohammed i'm writing from avi in prison entailed on
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the feel. sorry, terry and religious government has relentlessly suppressed the women i suite, the movement. but even if people are no longer protesting in the streets, the spirit of the movement live. so this is the last footage of her as a free woman. after many years in prison, eroni and human rights activist nor kids mohammed the was released on bail in october 2020. immediately she risk being jailed again, meeting was former inmates and making a film about the around in regimes crimes. the small pieces sent, i thought, as the group of 23 activists who have experienced solitary confinement tied to reach out together. we're going to the judiciary offices to file
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a complaint on keeping that solitary confinement to violate. below this is a historic moment. talk to this complaint means the most, the tortured i'm the perpetrators are registered with deals are cheese that can get on that even though it's costly to, to definitely to isolate this is an important step. you know, the fight for justice. several paid to the how, how do i end it does for years not been fixed as you bet about the camera down when any that machine of them can otherwise, they'll take it from you the, the machine to the big it and that's, that's one time moment know what to you to no matter what you film in iran, you always need permission from the regime forces. the police are motion and motion . the
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vision that's included someone is that at some point, even if you have permission to assume you're strictly monitor all the or but what do you need been that you're not allowed to phone your court buildings. and the way of doing your feedback that you, they say about this one. so that's why we had to film in secret and imagine plenty of spence imagine that together was still makers fajitas out as id and gaylor a cook, yvonne. now guess mohammed de begin interviewing regime opponents for documentary white torture. the name describes and especially brutal form of torture experienced by here introduce subjects. and by mohammed d herself, it was a dangerous undertaking. almost simultaneously, authorities rated the homes of the entire team and to run and then when they broke down my apartment door lock that had the effect of seen by the image, i didn't match. each time we filmed, we had to copy the footage on to separate hard drives and send them to different places on how to otherwise they would have confiscated the material when they
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searched our homes, the who. now i'm amazed at that, how much is a totally fine? not unless somebody, the financial model is that you, they didn't find anything. because on the day they arrested and our guest, we'd hidden all the film footage to show the fim home road pin on fatty name to lose it came up when i was with, i guess from the regime forces broke into her house is how much wonderful on august the argument get us started because i witnessed her bravery that day. i followed her example when they came to my place a few days later, back to him on that when a man, when they told me to put on a headscarf, i said, you've come into my house phone, but you don't have to wear headscarf here. and so little money when am i, make the rush here shot into soccer, and i'm just those have already know the name of the other 2 filmmakers managed to get the highly sensitive footage out of the country. they now live in exile in germany, but not as mohammed, he was sent back to prison a few months later. she's still there today.
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i gave up everything as a women, a mother, and a human being to fight for freedom, equality and democracy. i don't regret that, but that doesn't apply to my children, ali and kiana. i regret the tie comp be with them the years ago. now kids mohammed these children left for parents to join their father in exile, twins, ali and kiana. haven't seen their mother since then. the running machine for bits any contact their last phone call was a here to the sales department. i don't hold much hope of seeing her again. but
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even if i don't, i will always be proud of her just to come into the bank. when i go on the box, if you know we grew up like this with this fight against the government, because no matter where we are, even if we were on mars and we will always be concerned what's happening in the wrong vendor in our country. the growing up in iran, their mother. now guys, mohammed de, was already campaigning for women's rights. their father tarry, ross money also thought for human rights. the children have many fond memories of their extended family. but they also remember one or the other parents often being in prison and redeem forces storming their home.
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there's use reducing even to many breaking down to the food. my father was finding when they came in, even though i was so little, i still shut the thinking about it. i remember the terrible feeling of seeing my father being taken away or fox. this is what i thought, you know, let go of dad. he doesn't want to go long, but i should stop by and refund this tardies of money was imprisoned dinner. ron, for 14 years. in 1988, when i told the for many had thousands of political prisoners executed. he survived . when he faced imprisonment again, he fled to paris. he hasn't seen his wife for 11 years and hasn't been able to visit his homeland parties in to be named my apologies in paris. my soul is into rhonda add on. sometimes when i'm on the streets of congress on right, i imagine that
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a great deal of the stuff to ron's and traveling. so the revolution street and republic, straits and humans. if you don't want to. i told them to move, you know, kids mohammed did not follow him into exile despite the fact that iranian authorities would have been more than happy to let her leave from abroad. her voice would have been less powerful. yeah, i wanted us to go together. when i went to abroad, i realized that i wanted to go back close this case by living abroad is like living in an aquarium. you're not in a place where you all need to move. everything is happening in around the world. in this fight, it's important to have principal, this is moving to as the way i know now, guess she wouldn't leave it wrong because she wouldn't leave. we have to organize our lines accordingly. like i was in the area.
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the regime wants me to disappear, but i wouldn't be defeated by this long separation. even if at times i'm overcome by an overwhelming sadness that makes me think i went suffice even after her public accusations against the government interviews, exposing the regimes, crimes and continual present sentences. now guess mohammed de has kept working of, including by filming her documentary white torture in it. she describes her own experiences and solitary confinement alone in a cell for weeks and months at a time or one. that's the next the you have to in the i meant to your hot stops, you actually have to order been to us when the doors slammed shut. so would that be a terrified david meetings to, pardon me towards the
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4 times and so that treat my so just 3 paces wide sufficient lines. 24 hours a day? no books, nothing. the . the spreading silence was like an endless screen power lising my brain cells. so the associate are stripped of all your senses and suppositories, your sense of smell is going on. that's the only sense that might work. a bit is hearing the size
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that they take away your sense of the shape. you lose your ability to perceive things. you're in a void. your organs are working to rely even an endless graves. but you're not dead . you're still there. right? and nothing. this is really like experiencing that bad journalist sono, right, has search numerous prison sentences in iran, including a total of $288.00 days in solitary confinement. in 2009, as iranians protested against the official results of the presidential election. he was one of the journalists, making sure the news reached the wider world trying to go to you, begin to focus kind of ridiculous when i say that their crime was journalism. the
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teenager journalism is usually significantly by many iranian journalists have been in prison and t, as in the to it depends on the length of the detention he goes. after a few days, it's your township political prisoners, especially in subjected to that treatment. they put pressure on them by keeping them in solitary for a few months instead of getting so very often the government of these nomic republic and similar all sorts having made james claim that political prisoners of foreign with spies and things like that. so i see you are you ready to write? she makes up a story along those lines or that one chooses the people who will play a long coat. the people are often arrested without being told the charges they'll face or how long they'll be detained. then come degrading interrogations, which also fall under the term white torture. for them i enjoyed a year and
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a half in solitary, 166 months then full months, 3 months and 6 weeks. how do you suggest that you cannot imagine how, how do i see, but when you go into the sound, you feel like the walls are closing in on you and your heart is strict. it is like your heart is being ripped, towns or kindly read. that's what, why don't you feels like and try to prevent you from the dish you can use a feat, we use the term white georgia try because it leaves no visible boons on the body. head on nissan. ca, logical ones, the roof and model of the british, iranian student phone che hop on me, was imprisoned in 2014 her offense. she had trying to attend a men's volleyball game and to iran, something band forever on in women back. so you
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back, she's to finish it. one of their strategies is to humiliate you on you're not even allowed to use the toilet when you want to. like she had talked about, she sat on the end. an important part of this humiliation is that they open and close the door whenever they put on messiah choosing those ended any credit. because on how do you have no privacy at all? but you keep task b. i can come to humiliations of a patriarchal society who are you anyway? i'm going to the pass and you're a woman here on the corner to the exact friendship by telling women that they are inferior you said to absorb as one weapon of white torture in prisons is to force women to make sexual confessions. many women have told now guess i've experienced this because it's systematic. well, the interrogator is doing it for his own sexual gratification until it's part of
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the procedure in a male interrogated, will say to a female prisoner describe your sexual relationship with that. my little my buddy, mental now guess mohammed the used to a brief time out of prison, to document the stories. and later in prison, she took the risk of continuing this work. during the woman life freedom protests, she succeeded in publicizing accounts of sexual violence, against prisoners to long separation from family and children is also used as a method of torture. the non case mohammed de is haunted by a dream she had in her cell of her young daughter the well, i'm not for you to remember when you, when i'm says i actually felt can is mission. so my cheek will be, you know, personal, your lips to and i'm out here on
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a case to me. i'm on you that i wanted to hook up to when i suddenly realized i'm in a cell door accident at this time could choose from. i didn't want to open my eyes to be sure to include it in moments like that was simply human beings. i have one more that means many years have passed since then. kiana is now 17. she thinks about the milestones, big and small, that she hasn't been able to share with her mother. may i play calls the old? i started to miss my mom more and more. i was a bit fed up with her not being with us as pro 5. if i wanted my mother's actor a man, i wish he had told me how to put on makeup house a dress. she's a woman. we have the same body here and she could teach me so much about myself when call, but i have to figure it out to him on my own. it says, i wish my mom had been that's helped me. of course i missed her,
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but there are people who are less often to me. i consider myself lucky. there's that my mom is still the lines of the film for this book with a i do sports on the site just to keep going. feel free to take my mind off things so that life can go on. and if it interferes, it's an attempt to escape the situation, even if at the end of the day it doesn't work. i'm on you little bit. my mom and dad are my role models feel i've seen it 1st thing we've sacrificed the whole part of the delta thing, us the own people, the sacrifice lead, unimportant moments and also got home. i mean, i remember mom coming into prison, very ill people. that was hard for me, but it was also an inspiration of us. the
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climax and my mom is a fighter and i'm really proud or so i wish that one day she'd sit next to me and i could throw ha, that would be so cool to go for it was sooner. this is just a person i still looking by, but i wanted to draw her. she was incredibly pleased and free at the same time. you're close friends in for this young woman is fabulous. austin, an investor, and i think freedom has something to do with us on the whole financing because it's wonderful to feel freeze reserve, esther calling the we think freedom is every single histidine investor for a pool is the young women in the wrong could be as free as she is there's that would be great. we're at or send me about 10 years 12, cuz this phone,
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you know, kids mohammed d was able to smuggle a letter to us out of prison through secret channels. she wrote about what moved her most during the interview she conducted with inmates who had been tortured. what shocked me was how severe the consequences of so that she can find mental even decades like to it has huge effects on the so the mind and even the body you should see that one of the worst things was that they could open the door whenever they wanted honey on that report and that after i was free, i always locked the door of my room and you holding before i didn't mind someone coming into my room, donald was ok, but afterwards i suddenly being shown, whenever i sense to move, make sure that a that all the time that i was on edge that someone could come in and i would have no control over as the actual yet to insulate instead of the,
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you know, and the solitary. so they told me, we'll go out and come back with your family. enjoy you too. when i got into the interrogation room, i heard voices of a woman and a child. i don't know, i know a task it as though i felt the burning pain a whole nother my heart had stopped beating by then why them chasing the chap? i'm been turned out that i'd had a stroke contracts me to them. i can hardly see now ask them to chat and see if i can only read with my right eye. i get you to but i can't drive for right now, i'm going to give you to number one now. now, so as you read once you've been inside, can't even see my food properly. as all, newton, i'm the new hosting baby and i'm calling in sun will be to take a human being and put them in a meat grinder. what comes i will still have some human material yet, but these 5 that you call? yes. so what's the confinement info at the time when you come out, there's nothing left of you to the to even if you have the energy to defend
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yourself with it. and you know at that, um, which i probably get more of a month for me. so let's re consignment is really an attempt to destroy a person. i'm time motion, so the v one child then then get you to do them. torture is a method that eventually breaks its victims the regime, coerce is false confessions in order to publicly present detainees as guilty activists. abdulla, i'm on a, has experienced how that works. first hand based on the cost of the present indictment was drawing up on the basis of solid evidence, as well as clear and unequivocal confessions, find the defendants in the,
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in the next, the governments, it's enough for us so that when i read the confession big, i felt immense hatred for myself. well, and i asked myself how i could be so weak that zain them to the boat. and i wondered how i could make up for it. if we cheated but bunch feel like the fall list person in the world has any control not to drive the suicide. they saw us how much she liked the pictures for this. today i'm thinking about those who made forced confessions and some that she confinement and what executed the stories, a buried wisdom in december 2023. now gizmo hummadi is not in solitary confinement. she's in
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a vain prison in the women's wing for long term political prisoners. taking photos is 4 bits. these are images from a hacked surveillance camera in another wing. you paid. com for the pictures are a lot like how it is. that's against the walls, bunk beds, it has those who have been inside say that it's very similar to what it looks like . and the woman's when dim companies all them on at allstate, mt. m cloud and has been a political activist since her mother, the german of ronnie and not hate hobby, was jailed in around 3 years ago to hobby to campaign for women's rights, and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. magazine madam was hi, i'm now guys, and my mom have the same room and their beds are right beside each other than now. i know i'm that some detainees are permitted occasional phone calls. now guess
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mohammed has been able to smuggle out statements critical of the regime. that's kind of an invisible side. that's kind of doom during one visit or spread over several phone calls divine and under. they can be via another prisoner who answers questions bernardez. if you're not, i guess, but it's really not easy. it's, and it's very dangerous on, which is why not every prisoner does it. the thing must assault me. she'd have to find a knock. as mohammed's severely ill with a heart condition, she's now dependent on medical care. in november 2023, when the prison administration tried to force her to wear a head scarf for her journey to the hospital, she went on a hungry strength. no food, no medication for life was in danger. days later, not guessed mohammed d was allowed to go to the hospital without a head scarf. enter friends created this photo montage. a small victory against the regime. i mean much out of here besides our not care
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advantage 1st i using to wear headscarf to go to the hospital might seem trivial to many people. their bullshit body. margie mccormick, republican envelops us like the shell of a big guy called my multiple sword and told me, your haven was there to get your motor. you people are knocking against the shell from the inside, hoping that cracks will appear in one day that i will bring the job. i'm going, i'm the how district has that is not kids mohammed. the is 51 years old. she spent a total of almost 9 years in prison and still has 8 more to go. despite this, her will to fight has become even stronger miniature, but she's decided to fight against the use of solitary confinement alone, not today. now gas is much braver, more determined and watch the dogs then people to or more you or the
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ending constituents. and what impresses me most as far as humanity that she puts others before herself. good, a teacher, she something and then sometimes that's not good thing, but in situations like these, it's a strength because she never gives up. victory is not easy. so it won't come today or tomorrow, but she is gonna be that's what she said. and that's what i believe is unbreakable against a powerful regime that suppresses its opponents and has silenced so many but even if major protests have stopped, many continue to resist by challenging the rules of the islamic republic.
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the maverick them for them to to you don't it it is you, i don't think there won't be any more protests any ron that might have had in my religious family. my sister responded to what happened to by taking off her head scarf. joe, finishing the movement is like embers among the ashes. i last the fire. can we ignite at any time? who am i sure the viable? sure. target. small hummadi was awarded the 2023 nobel peace prize. it's both an honor and an inspiration for all those who have taken to the streets and risk. there's lines under the banner option john as id, woman life, freedom. this is not guess mohammed's message from being present. i quote on own if you to help free people from all sort terry and systems, especially religious and miss such an estate ones the stand up for peace. the
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