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| 118 Days In An Iranian Prison |
| By npr.org |
| Published: 11/30/2009 |
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Journalist and documentary filmmaker Maziar Bahari, who was arrested last June after Iran's disputed presidential elections and held for 118 days, says he was threatened with execution so often during his detention that he began to believe that was his destiny. "After a while, I thought, well, if they want to do it, I shouldn’t worry about it," Bahari tells NPR's Jacki Lyden. Bahari, 42, a Canadian-Iranian, was released Oct. 17. This week, Newsweek ran a story he wrote about his time in the notorious Evin prison. Bahari was arrested June 21 while sleeping in his mother's apartment in Tehran and taken to the prison, where he was accused of being a spy. "I was never told why I was arrested exactly," he says. "But I think the reason for my arrest was that I was a filmmaker and a journalist, so they wanted to teach a lesson to journalists and filmmakers. Read More. |
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