Tag: Maziar Bahari

  • Maziar Bahari's Ordeal in Tehran Prison | Newsweek

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    Maziar Bahari’s Ordeal in Tehran Prison Maziar Bahari’s ordeal inside Tehran’s Evin Prison. via Newsweek: http://www.newsweek.com/id/219034 For day after day, month after month, following his imprisonment in Iran on June 21, documentary filmmaker and NEWSWEEK correspondent Maziar Bahari did not see the face of his interrogator. Bahari, 42, was blindfolded or faced a wall as…

  • Canada and Newsweek Seek Release of Reporter Detained in Iran

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    IAN AUSTEN – NYTimes.com: The reporter, Maziar Bahari, who holds both Canadian and Iranian citizenship, was picked up Sunday at his mother’s home in Tehran by government security officials who seized videotapes and a laptop computer. Reporters Without Borders, an advocacy group, estimated that 26 journalists had been arrested in Iran since the presidential election…