آتنا دائمی

“I was due to be released today after almost five years behind bars. But everyone knows that as long as the Islamic Republic exists, Iran is a prison everywhere. But I am free, so much that they keep thinking they have to imprison me with a new sentence. These sentences sound ridiculous to me, even the lashes! … I am free today because being free does not necessarily mean that you should be on the other side of the bars. Every new sentence affirms that I am free.”