Shortly before the call to prayer, the guards will lead Matin Mohammadi out and into the light one last time. He’ll be jolted awake by the clanging of his cell’s iron door, as he is most mornings, taken into the prison courtyard and hanged.
It’s the fear that occupies the 17-year-old’s mind when he goes to sleep in Ghezel Hesar prison just west of Tehran, waking each morning to mark another day survived but still on borrowed time.
