The Darkest Night Brings Longer Days: Surviving War and Iran's Evin Prison (Footprints Series)

In the late 1980s Sirous Houshmand found himself in the confines of Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, a political prisoner facing a future where survival seemed unlikely.Thousands were killed in mass executions in 1988, including many of Houshmand’s closest prison friends.These memories would shape his life for years to come. The Darkest Night Brings Longer Days is Houshmand’s eyewitness testimony of tumultuous times and of living in two dissimilar countries.Born in Iran, Houshmand grew up in the United States.Following graduate studies and partly driven by the political fervour of the 1960s - the war in Vietnam, the Kent State shootings, the drift towards a consumerist society and conformist pressures - he returned home.There he was a follower of the revolution, worked as a medical aide in the Iran-Iraq War, and was eventually imprisoned in a widespread assault against the opposition.Houshmand shares the brutal realities of incarceration, prompting reflection on today’s political prison