Marzi Amirizadeh shares the reality of growing up as a young woman under strict Sharia Law imposed in 1979 by the Iranian government, and the time she and her friend Maryam Rostampour were arrested in 2009 and sentenced to death for sharing their Christian beliefs.
Marziyeh Amirizadeh describes the horrors of Iran’s Evin Prison, where prisoners are brutally tortured, raped, and deprived of basic human rights. To save herself from a death sentence all she had to do was deny her faith, but she refused.
Through getting to know her, I also got to know much of the back story that’s not in the book, the person behind the book who exhibited tremendous faith and courage standing up to the Islamic regime.