Maziar Bahari: Witness

CBS, 60 minutes, November 22, 2009

Recently freed after four months of interrogation and torture in Evin prison, Iran, Newsweek reporter Maziar Bahari tells his story to Bob Simon, including his forced TV-confession, and videos from the post-election protest.

Link to CBS.news video

About the revolutionary guards:

"These guys are in charge of your life, and they are stupid!"

Maziar Bahari explains his detention in Evin prison

- with Fareed Zakari on GPS (CNN)

CNN interview with Maziar Bahari who spent 118 days in Evin prison, in solitary confinement:

Part 1:

Part 2:

Also read Bahari’s article in Newsweek

118 Days, 12 Hours, 54 Minutes

- in Evin prison

On June 21, reporter Maziar Bahari was rousted out of bed and taken to Tehran's notorious Evin prison—accused of being a spy for the CIA, MI6, Mossad…and NEWSWEEK. This is the story of his captivity—and of an Iran whose rampant paranoia underpins an ever more fractured regime.

"Evin Prison, June 21, 2009 (around 10 a.m.)
The interrogator sat me in a wooden chair. It had a writing arm, like the chair I'd had in primary school. He ordered me to look down, even though I was already blindfolded: "Never look up, Mr. Bahari. While you are here—and we don't know how long you're going to be here—never look up." All I could see from under the blindfold was the interrogator's black leather slippers. They worried me. He had settled in for a long session."

Read his story about his Iranian captivity in Newsweek.