An Analysis of Resistance Under Torture

<p>“An Analysis of Resistance Under Torture” was written in the early 1970s by Ashraf Dehghani as a chapter of her prison memoirs, <em>Torture and Resistance in Iran</em>, which was translated and published in English in 1976.</p> <p>Ashraf Dehghani (born in 1949) is an Iranian communist militant. In 1971, she joined the underground Marxist–Leninist guerrilla group the Organization of Iranian People’s Fadaee Guerrillas (OIPFG) and later that year was arrested and imprisoned. In prison, she resisted the brutal treatment and did not provide any sensitive information to the torturers. She escaped from prison in 1973 and rejoined the OIPFG. After the 1979 Iranian Revolution, while some of her comrades moved away from guerrilla warfare, Ashraf Dehghani founded a new organization (the Iranian People’s Fadaee Guerrillas, IPFG) to continue the armed struggle against the new government. She later reportedly moved to Europe, and her current whereabouts are unknown.</p>