Narges Mohammadi: White Torture: The Infamy of Solitary Confinement in Iran

Narges Mohammadi in conversation with Darius Rejali and Abbas Milani. RSVP to receive the Zoom link for the discussion on September 29. The link to the documentary will be shared with registered attendees before the event.

Narges Mohammadi is Deputy Director of the Defenders of Human Rights Centre (DHRC). She was elected as President of the Executive Committee of the National Council of Peace in Iran, a broad coalition against war and for the promotion of human rights. She has campaigned for the abolition of the death penalty in Iran and was awarded the Per Anger Prize by the Swedish government for her human rights work in 2011. In a two volume study, called White Torture, she underscores how solitary confinement is indeed an insidious form of torture. She has interviewed many of Iran’s dissidents who have been subjected to solitary confinement. Based on these conversations, she has also produced a documentary.

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https://iranian-studies.stanford.edu/events/white-torture-infamy-solitary-confinement-iran