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"On September 12, 2018 British-Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert was arrested at Tehran Airport by Iran feared Islamic Revolutionary Guards. Convicted of espionage in a shadowy trial presided over by Iran most notorious judge, Dr Moore-Gilbert was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Incarcerated in Tehran Evin and Qarchak prisons for 804 days, this is the full and gripping account of her harrowing ordeal. Held in a filthy solitary confinement cell for months, and subjected to relentless interrogation, Kylie was pushed to the limits of her endurance by extreme physical and psychological deprivation. Kylie only lifeline was the covert friendships she made with other prisoners inside the Revolutionary Guards maximum-security compound where she had been disappeared, communicating in great danger through the air vents between cells, and by hiding secret letters in hava khori, the narrow outdoor balcony where she was led, blindfolded, for a solitary hour each day. Cut off from the outside world, Kylie realised she alone had the power to change the dynamics of her incarceration. To survive, she began to fight back, adopting a strategy of resistance with her captors. Multiple hunger strikes, letters smuggled to the media, co-ordinated protests with other prisoners and a daring escape attempt led to her transfer to the isolated desert prison, Qarchak, to live among convicted criminals. On November 25, 2020, after more than two years of struggle, Kylie was finally released in a high stakes three-nation prisoner swap deal orchestrated by the Australian government, laying bare the complex game of global politics in which she had become a valuable pawn. Written with extraordinary insight and vivid immediacy, The Uncaged Sky is Kylie Moore-Gilbert remarkable story of courage and resilience, and a powerful meditation on hope, solidarity and what it means to be free."--Publisher's website.
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Nobility --- Women political prisoners --- Stuart, Arabella,
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Women political prisoners --- Suffragists --- Lytton, Constance,
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Women political prisoners --- History --- Political prisoners --- Women prisoners
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This book is the first of its kind that brings together human geography and the sociology of punishment to explore the relationship between distance and the punishment in contemporary Russia. Using established penological and geographical theories, the book presents in-depth empirical research to show how the experiences of women prisoners are shaped by the distances that the Russian penal service sends prisoners to serve their sentences. Its most eye-catching feature is its use ofinterviews conducted by the authors and their research team with adult and juvenile women prisoners, ex-prisoners
Women prisoners --- Women political prisoners --- Political prisoners --- Prisoners
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Escapes --- Women political prisoners --- Cárcel de Mujeres (Montevideo, Uruguay)
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Political activists --- Women political prisoners --- Ensslin, Gudrun --- Rote Armee Fraktion.
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"The terrified yell of my comrades makes me stop. I drop the potatoes into the grass and turn around. He has pulled out the pistol and is taking aim. Slowly I come back." Surviving the Gulag is the first-person account of a resourceful woman who survived five grueling years in Russian prison camps: starved, traumatized, and worked nearly to death. A story like Ilse Johansen's is rarely told-of a woman caught in the web of fascism and communism at the end of the Second World War and beginning of the Cold War. The candid story of her time as a prisoner, written soon after her release, provides startling insight into the ordeal of a German female prisoner under Soviet rule. Readers of memoir and history, and students of feminism and war studies, will learn more about women's experience of the Soviet gulag through the eyes of Ilse Johansen.
Women political prisoners --- Women prisoners --- Prisoners --- Memoir / World War II / Women's Studies.
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