Bahari at an Aug. 1 "news" conference staged by Iranian authorities while he was being held.
Bahari at an Aug. 1 "news" conference staged by Iranian authorities while he was being held.
"You shouldn't do their job for them. If they want to execute you, they should do it themselves."
That's one of several compelling moments in a conversation scheduled for Weekend Edition Sunday.
It's filmmaker and Newsweek reporter Maziar Bahari talking with NPR's Jacki Lyden about the times he contemplated suicide during the four months he spent in Iran's infamous Evin Prison — where Bahari was tortured and threatened with execution for allegedly being part of a foreign conspiracy behind the protests that followed Iran's presidential elections last summer.
After repeated threats of execution, says Bahari, he considered the possibility of breaking his glasses and using the shards to slit his wrists. But he thought about his family. And he decided that killing himself would just make things easier for the authorities:
Frank wrote earlier this week, that Bahari has shared his tales in the pages of Newsweek and on CBS-TV's 60 Minutes — where he discussed the false "confession" he gave while being held.
Bahari is scheduled to be on tonight's broadcast of TV's The Charlie Rose Show.
As we said, his conversation with Jacki will be on Weekend Edition Sunday. Click here to find an NPR station near you. The entire interview will also be posted on NPR.org this weekend.
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