"White torture" - free seminar.<br /><br />Narges Mohammadi is a prominent human rights activist in Iran. For years, she has actively protested against acid attacks on women, fought for women's rights, the rights of minorities and has been active in the work against the death penalty. For this work, she has been sentenced to a total of 30 years in prison. A well-known method of punishment, especially against political prisoners in Iran, is White Torture. This is a type of psychological torture where the prisoners are subjected to complete sensory deprivation and isolation. They are kept in a cell that deprives them of all senses and identity. Everything is white around them, the food is white and tasteless, they hear no sounds, have no communication with others, the light casts no shadows and all surfaces are completely smooth. They can be kept in this situation for months or years and most people eventually break.<br /><br />Narges Mohammedi has made the documentary and published the book White Torture where she interviews 12 women who have experienced this torture - herself included.<br /><br />Host Asieh Amini – Iranian human rights activist, Friby author and journalist.<br /><br />Panel:<br />John Peder Egenæs – Secretary General of Amnesty International Norway.<br /><br />Taghi Rahmani – Iran's most imprisoned journalist, married to Narges Mohammadi. Now living in exile in France with their children.<br /><br />Massood Mafa – publisher and former board member of Swedish PEN. Head of Baran Förlag which since 1991 has published censored Iranian authors. Central to the release of White Torture.<br /><br />Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe – British-Iranian national who was arrested at Tehran airport in April 2016 with her 2-year-old daughter and jailed for 6 years. Has been exposed to white torture and is interviewed in Narges Mohammadi's book. Released from prison in March 2022 after horse-trading with the UK.<br /><br />Mahnaz Parakand – Advocate. Already imprisoned as a student and sentenced to death in 1981. The sentence was later overturned, but still exposed to prosecution. Advocate for, among others, Nobel Prize winner Shirin Ebadi and the Bahai leaders. After several threats of imprisonment and execution, she escaped to Norway in 2011.<br /><br />Cooperation with Amnesty Midt-Norge and Litteraturhuset.