I miss Iran, no regime lasts forever – Activist Parvaz
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“But I was separated from my parents. I lost them when they needed me, I couldn’t be there for them and that was very painful...
By Isa Isawade
Iranian activist, Nasrin Parvaz, who ran from her country and went on exile in the United Kingdom, has expressed an emotional feeling towards her country of birth.
Nasrin spent eight years being tortured and imprisoned before seeking sanctuary in the UK.
The Mirror’s Instagram project, #PeopleMove quoted her as saying: “I didn’t want to leave my country, so I stayed for another three years. Then the regime started to arrest ex-political prisoners, and my parents were very worried.
“They said, ‘they’ll kill you this time’ so I had to escape, and I came to the UK in 1993.
“It was really difficult. I was helped by Freedom From Torture, where I had therapy.
“But I was separated from my parents. I lost them when they needed me, I couldn’t be there for them and that was very painful.
“I went to university here where I studied psychology, then I completed a master’s degree in international relations.”
“I have written about my prison experiences in my book ‘One Woman’s Struggle in Iran’, a prison memoir.
“I live in London, and I’ve now lived in the UK longer than I did in Iran. I don’t count the eight years I was in jail as living. I still miss Iran, and I am hopeful that there will be change. No regime lasts forever. They will be toppled – but when, I don’t know.”
Nasrin Parvaz was born in Tehran and became a women’s and civil rights activist in post-revolutionary Iran.
She was arrested, tortured and sentenced to death in 1982. Her sentence was commuted to ten years imprisonment, but she was released eight years after in 1990.
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