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This American Life: In Tehran in 2004, Omid Memarian confessed to doing things he’d never done, meeting people he’d never met, following plots he’d never heard of. Why he did that, and why a lot of other people have confessed to the same things, is all in the fine print. This American Life producer Nancy Updike tells the story. >>> Listen (fast forward to minute 7:00)
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Chilling, heartbreaking
by Jahanshah Javid on Tue Jan 05, 2010 07:59 PM PSTAn excellent, engaging report on how the regime obtains "confessions" from its critics. Omid's story is so chilling and heartbreaking.