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Ahmadinejad questioned about Maziar Bahari
Newsweek quizzes Iranian President Ahmadinejad about Tehran's imprisonment of Maziar Bahari
24 Sep 09

Reporters from Newsweek and the Washington Post quizzed President Ahmadinejad yesterday about Iranian-Canadian journalist and filmmaker Maziar Bahari who has been detained since 21 June without access to a lawyer.

When asked whether he would release Maziar Bahari on humanitarian grounds, Ahmadinejad replied: “I would like all prisoners to be released, but I am not the judge. If I were in charge of this case, I would guarantee that all the prisoners would be released.”

Read Malu Halasa on her friend and colleague Maziar Bahari