White Torture: Interviews with Iranian Women Prisoners - WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2023

In White Torture, fourteen women testify to the horrifying human rights abuses they endured in Iranian prisons, including harassment, beatings, blindfolding, and denial of medical treatment. The women, who have not committed crimes, are prisoners of conscience or held hostage as bargaining chips. The interviews, conducted by Narges Mohammadi while the women were in prison or facing charges, are powerful documents of resistance and integrity. The book condemns the regime's crimes and highlights the ongoing fight for women's rights, life, and freedom in Iran.

Format: Unspecified
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 30 November 2023
Publisher: Oneworld Publications

Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 2023




A gripping, moving, and utterly shocking account.


Kylie Moore-Gilbert


Iranian prisons systematically violate human rights.


In "White Torture," fourteen women, including Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, share their experiences of imprisonment: harassment and beatings by guards, total blindfolding and denial of medical treatment. Angry interrogators threaten their families and lie about their whereabouts. One prisoner is even told she is dead.


None of the women have committed crimes – they are prisoners of conscience or held hostage as bargaining chips. Through torture, the Iranian state hopes to remake their souls.


These interviews, carried out by Narges Mohammadi while each woman was in prison or facing charges, are astounding documents of resistance and integrity.


As Iranians still fight for Woman, Life, Freedom, "White Torture" indicts the regime for its crimes.


A must-read for anyone concerned with human rights in Iran.

Weight: 258g
Dimension: 196 x 129 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780861548767