Maziar Bahari and Press TV

Friday, 3rd July 2009

The latest outrage perpetrated by the Iranian state broadcaster Press TV is its coverage of the arrest of film maker and journalist Maziar Bahari.

Maziar, a Canadian-Iranian, was arrested on June 21 and paraded on TV nine days later "confessing" to his role in a western plot to destabilise the Iranian regime.

I am loathe to encourage readers to look at the Press TV site, so check out the story at The Spittoon, a great site opposed to clerical fascism. The author of the piece, "shikwa", concludes:

"How can anyone continue doubting the bias of Press TV which spews this rubbish at the behest of its clerical-fascist backers? [...]Of course, we all knew long before the rigged elections that Press TV was little more than an organ for the Iranian regime but its slavish regurgitation of Tehran’s nonsense in recent weeks has reached new heights."

Index on Censorship has been following Maziar's case closely and has written about his arrest and his "confession"

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