Zarah Ghahramani (Persian: زاراە قهرمانی) is an Iranian-born Kurdish[1] author living in Australia who wrote My Life as a Traitor, an award-winning memoir of her imprisonment and torture in Evin Prison.
[2] Because Ghahramani's family strongly disagreed with the country's conservative rulers,[3] she was politically active from an early age.
However, her "rage at the government was a matter of personal style as much as of principle," resulting from the "dos and don'ts" of the life she was expected to live under.
After a period of political activism that displeased the Iranian authorities, she was arrested and imprisoned in the infamous Evin prison.
[5] Charged with "inciting crimes against the people of the Islamic Republic of Iran,"[6] Ghahramani was beaten, interrogated and locked in solitary confinement.