Alan Johnson: Facing up to violence in Iran

The nuclear stand-off must not distract us from responding to a wave of repression that has seen activists executed The genius of the Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi was, as Norman Geras observed, to use "common experience to illuminate the experience of the Nazi universe of death, and vice versa." Take the experience of shame. In If This is a Man Levi recounted the hanging of a prisoner who had been involved in... [read full story]                    

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