Canadian/Iranian filmmaker and Newsweek correspondent. Free after 118 days in Iranian jail.

Channel 4 News surveys the Transit Tehran exhibition, currently at the London School of Economics and includes interviews with Malu Halassa, Maziar Bahari’s friend and collaborator on the project.

Jon Snow of Channel 4 News interviews Paola Gourley at the Transit Tehran exhibition.
Channel 4

“The United States is asking that Iran immediately release two jailed foreign nationals even as it pursues talks over Tehran’s nuclear program, according to people familiar with the negotiations,” reports The Wall Street Journal. “The U.S. didn’t make the release of Mr. Tajbakhsh, 47 years old, and Mr. Bahari, 42, a condition for [...]

Maziar Bahari’s story is related by one of his colleagues, Jacki Lyden, on NPR Radio.
“There’s been an undeniable shadow in my life recently — an absence in presence, a missing voice in the chorus that forms the circle of my closest friends. It’s a shadow, too, that touches my work — journalism — and sometimes [...]

In a joint Newsweek/Washington Post interview, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was asked whether he would consider releasing Maziar Bahari on humanitarian grounds. “I would like all prisoners to be released, but I am not the judge,” he answered. “The judge has to decide on this.”
Before ending the interview President Ahmadinejad was asked: “So, Mr. [...]