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Abdollah Momeni, a former student leader, described in vivid detail in a recent letter how he was brutally beaten dozens of times by his interrogators, kept for weeks in a tomb-like cell and forced to confess to crimes he says he did not commit.

“All this treatment is carried out in the framework of a religious regime, justified by claims of protecting the state,”

Mr Leroy complains that duckrabbit has ‘slandered‘ both himself and the photographers who appeared at the festival.  Of course technically it’s not possible to ‘slander’ Mr Leroy because slander is spoken, not written, but I think we can all get his point.   You can be the judge of whether this debate was worth having and whether, given the evidence and opinion presented both by duckrabbit and Mr Leroy, our response to the attack on Morel was justified.

Journalism is dependent on asking questions.  It was not duckrabbit but William Klein who suggested  that  Visa resembles ‘a festival of shanty towns without context.’

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Among the thousands of images in the Photographic Youth Music Culture Archive are Parisian beatniks pontificating over coffee and cigarettes, rockers frozen in time at the Ace cafe in 1964, sun-kissed hippies sucking earnestly on their joints, punk girls sitting in a burnt-out car, and ecstatic, exhausted acid house ravers heading for a crashing comedown.