Apart from Safty, nine members of the leftist Bread and Freedom Party are currently detained.
The Queue is evocative of George Orwell’s dystopias, of Kafkaesque surrealism, and of the dark satire of Sonallah Ibrahim’s The Committee, but could perhaps best be described as dystopic realism.
«This repressive regime has set itself an unattainable goal: to silence everyone all the time forever»
«Series: Notes on authoritarianism and dissent»
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