Karzan Sherabayani, a 14-year-old Kurdish boy, was arrested and tortured by Saddam Hussein's secret police 30 years ago. After 25 years in exile, he returns to his childhood home in Kirkuk to vote in Iraq's first democratic election.
Return to Kirkuk: A Year in the Fire
In the 1990s, 14-year-old Karzan Sherabayani was arrested and brutally tortured by Saddam Hussein's secret police due to his Kurdish ethnicity, a victim of ethnic persecution.