Death Plus Ten Years

by RogerCooper (Author)

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  Paperback
  1994

  $7.75

  Roger Cooper was arrested at gunpoint for alleged espionage while on a business trip to Tehran in 1985. So began an extraordinary mental and physical struggle with his Iranian captors that was to last five years, three months and 25 days. Long after his parody of a trial by Revolutionary Court in Evin gaol, Cooper learnt of his sentence: Death plus ten years . Asking, Which comes first? , he was told he would be held for ten years and then hanged. He replied: Please don't make it the other way round . For 25 years Cooper had worked in Iran as a journalist, teacher, Persian translator, business consultant and Middle Eastern expert. Now he found himself beaten and blindfolded and threatened with indefinite gaol unless he confessed . This is his story.

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  Hardcover
  1993

  $5.76

  When Roger Cooper was released in April 1991 from Evin prison in Tehran, he had spent more than 5 years undergoing intensive interrogation and frequent solitary confinement in one of the most feared prisons in the world, where hundreds died beofre the Ayattollah's revolution and tens of thousands during and after it. Tried and convicted as a British spy, he was sentenced to death plus ten years in 1987 and remained under a death threat until January 1990. This book describes his experiences - his interrogation, his confession , trial, attempts to learn about his sentence, his contacts with other prisoners, and conditions in the jail. He also describes his personal survival techniques and how he coped with post-traumatic stress disorder after his release, his views on hostage-taking, on Iran and on negotiating with Middle East agencies for the release of hostages.