Censorship and Power in Iran with Jon Stewart and Maziar Bahari (Slideshow)

On May 8, 2013, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran hosted a screening in New York of Iranian-Canadian director Maziar Bahari’s film Forced Confessions in a joint event with the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and the PEN American Center.

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As part of the sold-out event, hundreds of New Yorkers participated in a question-and-answer session about censorship in Iran with Bahari, Executive Director of CPJ Joel Simon, and world-famous political satirist Jon Stewart of The Daily Show.

All photographs for the slideshow above were provided courtesy of Nazy Kaviani.