SortI am very impressed by New book by Cecilia Sala, The children of hatredMondadori. It is the detailed story of its reports from the Middle East, and it would be a great book even without the last chapter. The last chapter, however, is a punch in the stomach. He tells his imprisonment, unjust and terrible, in the Iranian prison of Evin.
Private of everything, of freedom, of the mobile phone (how would we react if we remained without a mobile phone?), Of the computer with his work, of the books. But the hardest page is the one in which we talk about the neighbor of cell. A woman who Cecilia has never seen in the face, with whom she never talked about, whose name she never knew. But she heard it, through the door of the door.
And he sensed what he was doing: take the run -up, as far as you can do in a closed cell of two meters, and launch with all the strength against the armored doorin the hope of losing the senses, of injuring yourself, of going out in some way of there, if necessary dead. He committed suicide in the same way, beating his head against the cell wall, Pier delle Vigne, one of the great characters of Dante’s hell (“Men we were, and we do not make brushwood …”).
Aldo Cazzullo (photo by Carlo Vangi Gilbert).
Faced with so much despair, two lights. A red kitten that Cecilia feels next to her feet, while walking in the hooded courtyard. AND The mother, who demonstrates a great journalistic talent by addressing three dry questions in the only phone call that she can receive from her daughter – Do you have a bed in the cell? No. Do you have a mattress? No. Do you have a pillow? No. Those three news, made public by the mother, served to give a signal to Italian public opinion, and indirectly to the Iranian regime.
“The children of hatred” by Cecilia Sala, Mondadori.
Even if they cost Cecilia a terrible intimidation, the sight of an implementation, in prison. How pain Iranian women have to endure. How much injustice. And how much moral force are demonstrating. Thanks Cecilia for having lived it on your skin, and for telling it to you.
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