She is a graduate of the certificate program in creative writing at the School of Continuing Studies at the University of Toronto. In 2012 she was a guest speaker at the San Francisco Freedom Forum of the Human Rights Foundation along with Aung San Suu Kyi and Garry Kasparov.
She is a regular participant in the Oslo Freedom Forum. Today, Nemat teaches memoir writing part-time at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies, and regularly speaks about her experiences in front of high-school classes, universities, libraries and associations. She knew that many victims did not want to talk about their fate. Nemat worked at the Aurora franchise of the Swiss Chalet restaurant chain, and wrote her life story in 78,000 words. They escaped to Canada in 1991 and have two sons. Nemat did eventually marry the guard and was released from prison he was later assassinated. However, after five months of imprisonment, it became clear that Ali had developed an attachment to Nemat and intended to force her to marry him. She was rescued by a prison guard, who also obtained commutation of her sentence to life imprisonment.
She was tortured in the notorious Evin Prison well known for atrocities against political inmates, and sentenced to death. On 15 January 1982, at age 16, Nemat was arrested and imprisoned for her views against the revolution. As a student Marina Nemat opposed the oppressive policies of the new Islamic government, attended demonstrations and wrote anti-revolutionary articles in a student newspaper. She was a high school student when the secularizing monarchy of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was overthrown by Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic Revolution. Her father worked as a dance teacher, her mother as a hairdresser.
Both her grandmothers had, with their Iranian husbands whom they had married before the Russian Revolution of 1917, fled from Russia to Iran as part of the massive wave of migration that had started. Nemat's grandmothers were both Russian, and she was brought up in a Russian Orthodox Christian family in Tehran. Marina Nemat ( Persian: مارینا نِمت, Russian: Марина Немат born 22 April 1965) is the author of two memoirs about her life growing up in Iran, serving time in Evin Prison for speaking out against the Iranian government, escaping a death sentence and finally fleeing Iran to go and live in Canada.
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