Waiting for Maziar
08/05/09
Caught in Iran's political maelstrom, forced to
"confess" at the show trial in Tehran, will Newsweek's Maziar Bahari be free in
time to see the birth of his first child?
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A passionate patriot, Maziar's constant aim has been to portray Iran as the deeply proud, subtly complicated, and impressively sophisticated society that it is. But as Paola knows-and all of us know, in fact-the process he's caught up in now is not constitutional and follows no legal precedent, unless you count the Stalin-era show trials of the Communist Soviet Union, or maybe their American reflection, the red-baiting congressional hearings of the 1940s and 1950s. (read full story)
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