A review by kitkat2500
Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival by Maziar Bahari

5.0

I really enjoyed reading this book, although I found it profoundly disturbing. Let's just say it's not recommended bedtime reading. I learned a great deal about what went on in Iran politically during the 2009 elections, and the subsequent protests by the people. Bahari was an Iranian-Canadian journalist covering the election for Newsweek, when he was arrested and jailed (his British fiancee was five months pregnant at the time). He spent four months in prison, being interrogated, beaten and tortured. His account is well-written and horrific. It is made more touching by the fact that both his late father and late sister had been jailed by various regimes in Iran, and he spends some time during his solitary confinement communing with them and telling the story of his politically-inclined family.
I am deeply saddened by the brutal repression of the Iranian people voicing their desire for a more open and democratic society. I hope they will somehow find their way to a brighter future.