Podcast 40: Maziar Bahari on the Crackdown on Filmmakers

In this week’s Weekly Rights Podcast, we examine the Iranian government’s crackdown on independent and documentary filmmakers and actors. We talk to Maziar Bahari, an Iranian-Canadian filmmaker and journalist, about the arrests of six independent documentary filmmakers accused of collaborating with BBC Persian. Bahari also describes his arrest after the June 2009 presidential election, when he spent three months in prison in largely incommunicado detention.