Iranian Elections

Athanasiadis on his Iranian detention

Gregg Carlstrom | July 10, 2009 11:42 AM | 0 | recommend (0) |   |      

Al-Jazeera English has an interview posted with Iason Athanasiadis, the Greek-British journalist who was detained for three weeks in Evin prison in Tehran. An excerpt:

I certainly received treatment that was not consistent with what Iranian political prisoners were receiving... I spent 18 days in solitary confinement... I had no access to news, it was a news blackout... [my interrogators] put on surgical masks so they could hide their features.

The Al-Jazeera clip is after the jump; it's well worth a watch.

By the way, if you live in the Washington, D.C. area, you can now watch Al-Jazeera English on cable. It's still unavailable in most of the country, though -- it has an Arabic name, after all, so making it available in other American cities would obviously give aid and comfort to our enemies.

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