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CHAPTER ELEVEN Producing Fraudulent Evidence B y this time, the leaders of the government who were my fiercest opponents had resolved to convict me of espionage and push for the death penalty, as they could not entrap or pressure me, and I did not share any secrets with other inmates. Hence, they decided to produce fraudulent evidence against me by writing a false document of confession in Persian and hiding it in my cell unbeknown to me. Then they planned to discover this confession when searching my cell later. The method employed here was that when a person would not get under their control during the interrogations, they would employ such tac- tics to prove him guilty. So they wrote in Persian instructions purportedly from the British government to travel to the Soviet Union and spy on the government, and they were planning to throw this into my cell without anyone noticing. However, while my cellmates did not get along with me out- wardly, which was correct to do according to the circumstances at