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What the Walls Remember
I was sixteen when the guards came for me at school. My crime was asking my teacher a question about the new Islamic curriculum. Two years in Tehran's Evin Prison taught me that the human spirit can endure more than anyone imagines.
MarinaIran1991
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Twenty-Two Years of Hope
In 1960, I was a 23-year-old government clerk in Havana who refused to put a sign on my desk that read "I'm with Fidel." That simple act of conscience cost me twenty-two years in Castro's prisons.
ArmandoCuba1982