Powell's Books: Overview (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran by Haleh Esfandiari, a review from Ms. Magazine by Nikki Keddie.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Since I was released from Tehran's notorious Evin Prison last month, the questions have come again and again: Can we still talk to these people? Should the Obama administration engage in dialogue with Iran? What should the West do in nuclear negotiations? After being jailed, interrogated and beaten by the Revolutionary Guards for 118 days for reporting honestly on the disputed June 12...
Gypsy Scholar (Free subscription) | yesterday
Evin Prison (Image from Inside Evin Prison ) The image above might or might not be from Evin Prison, for it isn't explicitly identified, nor is the photographer named, but it accompanies a report titled " Inside Evin Prison " on a certain man (called "Reza") who was arrested in Iran during the protests earlier this year, and...
Maggie's Notebook (Free subscription) | yesterday
... be built in the near future. The country is also holding three young Americans in the terrifying Evin Prison in Tehran. The three supposedly strayed across a border separating Iraq and Iran last summer. Now we have five Brits held hostage, bringing back memories of the March 2007 Royal Marines who were captured and held by Iran for twelve days - again for straying into Iranian waters....
Liprap's Lament - The Line (Free subscription) | yesterday
... martinis riding on your pick. In Newsweek , a reporter who was in captivity at Tehran's infamous Evin Prison details how paranoid the Islamic Republic's clerics are . ( Clay has also found evidence that Iran's Revolutionary Guard has even less regard for the rest of the world's opinion . Shirin Ebadi is one of the people working very hard to heal her country, and her country is spitting...
The Blog of Walker (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Via Voice of the Martyrs : On November 18, Maryam Rustampoor and Marzieh Amirizadeh were released from Evin Prison in Tehran after being held for 259 days, according to Elam Ministries. Family members picked them up at the prison, and the women expressed heartfelt thanks to Christians around the world who prayed for them during their days in prison. “Words are not...
Holly's Fight for Justice (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... citizen who was arrested on June 23, 2003, as she photographed relatives of detainees outside Evin prison in Tehran.She was never formally charged with any crime, but while in custody she was beaten and died of her injuries on July 10, 2003. Her body was hastily buried in Iran, according to religious custom.Since then, Hashemi has tried unsuccessfully to have his mother's body repatriated.Hashemi...
HOLLY'S FIGHT TO STOP VIOLENCE (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... citizen who was arrested on June 23, 2003, as she photographed relatives of detainees outside Evin prison in Tehran.She was never formally charged with any crime, but while in custody she was beaten and died of her injuries on July 10, 2003. Her body was hastily buried in Iran, according to religious custom.Since then, Hashemi has tried unsuccessfully to have his mother's body repatriated.Hashemi...
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
... As I moved, heart thumping, toward the door, I imagined being dragged blindfolded into the hell of Evin prison, built by the shah for the brutalizing of his political prisoners, used for the same purpose by the Islamic Republic. (More here.)
War in Context (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Why we should still talk with Iran By Marziar Bahari, Washington Post, November 26, 2009 Since I was released from Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison last month, the questions have come again and again: Can we still talk to these people? Should the Obama administration engage in dialogue with Iran? What should the West do in nuclear negotiations? [...]
cyrusfarivar.com (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
I’m a little behind, but I just read Maziar Bahari’s account of his 118 days in an Iranian prison in Newsweek. It’s frightening to say the least, and confirms similar accounts I’ve heard by others who have had the pleasure of Evin Prison’s hospitality. Robert Mackey in The Lede blog writes: Mr. Bahari’s account of his [...]
Toronto Sun - News (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
OTTAWA — A new private member’s bill would allow victims of torture to sue foreign states, says the son of Zahra Kazemi, the Canadian photojournalist beaten to death in Iran in 2003.Stephan Kazemi’s $17-million lawsuit against the government of Iran, its supreme leader, Tehran’s chief public prosecutor and the deputy chief of the Evin prison where his mother was tortured and killed, goes...
Harry's Place (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
... for Neda’s murder by the regime.Then the regime incarcerated Neda’s boyfriend, Caspian Makan in Evin prison. They tried to force him to publicly state his fiancée was killed by the MeK. Not only these were all outrageous attempts to whitewash their terrible crime, they were also inconsistent liars and no sane person with a shred of integrity could possibly stomach their contemptible...
Slog (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
He's going to write about it. Iranian-born Newsweek correspondent Maziar Bahari recounts his time (118 days, 12 hours, 54 minutes) in the notorious Evin prison, where the Iranian regime holds (and beats, and executes) political and religious prisoners. Bahari's interrogators threatened to kill him if he ever talked about what happened, but he refuses to be cowed: "We can...
