US satirist's 'Rosewater' raises torture questions

2014/11/15 08:52:23 @Entertainment News Headlines — Yahoo! News

US satirist Jon Stewart & #039;s directorial debut & quot;Rosewater & quot; is based on the true story of a western journalist imprisoned in Iran -- and raises real questions about the nature of torture. At least that & #039;s the opinion of Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal, who plays Canadian-Iranian reporter Maziar Bahari in the first movie by & quot;Daily Show & quot; host Stewart, released in the United States on Friday. Bahari was held in solitary confinement for 118 days after being arrested in Tehran while covering elections there in 2009, accused by then president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of being a Western spy. & quot;The systematic and globally accepted practice of solitary confinement amounts to torture, & quot; he added.
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