Anoosheh Ashoori, who spent more than four years arbitrarily imprisoned in Iran, speaks to Maxine Betteridge-Moes about his experiences in the notorious Evin prison.
As a child, Anoosheh Ashoori wanted to become an astronaut. After finishing secondary school in Iran he travelled to Britain to study engineering, before returning in 1982 following the Iranian revolution. He married his wife Sherry in 1984 and together they made the permanent move back to Britain.
‘My retired life started and we were happy. I was never politically motivated. Never in my wildest dreams could I have thought about what would happen,’ says the British-Iranian dual national.
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