At 26, Nazila Maroufian recounts the horrors she endured at the hands of Iran’s morality police: threats, imprisonment, and then two years of forced exile.
Now a journalist, she speaks out about what the mullahs’ regime tries so hard to hide: the thousands of deaths of women and men who demonstrate for freedom.
An interview conducted by journalist Jean-Charles Doria.
00:00 Introduction: Iran in flames, thousands dead
01:08 A young journalist confronts the regime
02:03 The interview that disturbs the regime
02:57 “If you publish, you will die in prison”
03:59 She publishes the truth despite the threat
04:37 The trap: the police arrive at her home
05:49 Arrested, she is brutalized by the police
07:54 Taken blindfolded to prison
09:17 She survives in Iranian prisons
11:18 Torture and forced confession in front of cameras
13:29 She has a heart attack ignored by the regime
15:05 Released… then arrested again and again
17:36 Beatings and sexual violence
21:00 She refuses to be silenced despite the terror
24:02 She flees Iran but is arrested at the border
26:05 Exiled in France, she continues to Bearing witness
30:12 She shows the dead to break the silence
33:10 “We will succeed”: the hope of the Iranian people