Houshang Asadi is a journalist, writer and translator. Prior to the Islamic Revolution, Asadi was the deputy editor of Kayhan, Iran's largest daily newspaper. In 1983, he was arrested and imprisoned, and spent two years in solitary confinement. After six years in prison, he was released. He now lives in Paris.

'This remarkable, humane story of abuse and survival across Iranian regimes – told by Ayatollah Khameinei's former cellmate – deserves a global audience, to understand the meaning of cruelty and the reality of modern, tragic, brutal Iran.' Philippe Sands

Houshang Asadi is a journalist, writer and translator. Prior to the Islamic Revolution, Asadi was the deputy editor of Kayhan, Iran's largest daily newspaper. In 1983, he was arrested and imprisoned, and spent two years in solitary confinement. After six years in prison, he was released. He now lives in Paris.

'This remarkable, humane story of abuse and survival across Iranian regimes – told by Ayatollah Khameinei's former cellmate – deserves a global audience, to understand the meaning of cruelty and the reality of modern, tragic, brutal Iran.' Philippe Sands

Houshang Asadi is a journalist, writer and translator. Prior to the Islamic Revolution, Asadi was the deputy editor of Kayhan, Iran's largest daily newspaper. In 1983, he was arrested and imprisoned, and spent two years in solitary confinement. After six years in prison, he was released. He now lives in Paris.

'This remarkable, humane story of abuse and survival across Iranian regimes – told by Ayatollah Khameinei's former cellmate – deserves a global audience, to understand the meaning of cruelty and the reality of modern, tragic, brutal Iran.' Philippe Sands