Personal Essay, Memoirs

A few months prior to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, 26 year old Ahmad Sharifi was arrested, imprisoned and tortured by members of President Taraki's secret police, all for being the brother-in-law of a political person. For nearly 7 months he saw only the "Square sky" outside his prison window. By the time he was released in 1980 the Russians had invaded and the entire country was a prison. Ahmad fled with only the clothes on his back, his high school and college diplomas. --Amazon summary

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