Soudabeh Ardavan is an Iranian woman, a former political prisoners now living in Sweden. She spent eight years of her precious life in the prison of the Islamic regime of Iran. She is an artist who drew prison life while she was in jail. Through these images, Soudabeh tells her story of hundreds of other women with whom she shared days of pain, sorrow, love and care. Soudabeh Ardavan’s powerful book of Prison Drawings is the first visual depiction of atrocities committed against thousands of women in prisons of Iran.
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Jacobo Silva Nogales, also known as Comandante Antonio, mexican political prisoner and member of "La Otra Campaña" (The Other Campaign), was detained on October 19th, 1999 in Mexico City, transferred to a military base and severely tortured until he was presented to the media together with his wife, Gloria Arenas Agis, and two other prisoners a few days later. He is sentenced to 46 years of imprisonment and actually imprisoned in the Maximum Security Prison "Altiplano", State of Mexico.
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Shohreh Kia was born in Iran; she was student in National University of Iran, when she started her political activism by participating in all left activity in the university.
During the six years of prison she always trying to do any kind of art work, carving the stone, or when she has no brush and no colure, used needle and tread to show her feeling and bring hope and life to those very dark and painful years.
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