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Maziar Bahari's Ordeal in Tehran Prison | Newsweek

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 the accusations and questions—often it was hard to tell the difference—kept coming at him. And always the interrogator told him the same thing: “No one on the outside cares about you. Everyone has forgotten you.” Nothing could have been further from the truth.

October 23, 2009
Canada and Newsweek Seek Release of Reporter Detained in Iran

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 on June 12.

June 24, 2009