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- Iran Admits its Security Forces Beat to Death an International Journalist; her Son Demands the Return of her Body to Canada
Zahra Kazemi was taking pictures of a notorious prison in Tehran. Democracy Now! speaks with her son, her friend, a Doctor who spoke with witnesses to her beating by Iranian police and a member of the Committee to Protect Journalists.
- Trading With the "Enemy": Halliburton & GE Make Millions Trading With Iran
As head of Halliburton and as U.S. Vice President, Dick Cheney lobbied to remove sanctions against Iran to allow his business to profit off the Iranian dictatorship.
- U.S. Freelance Reporter Billy Nessen Faces a Five Year Sentence in Indonesia
We speak with filmmaker David Martinez who traveled with Billy Nessen through Aceh, former U.S. embassy official Edward McWilliams and Lesley McCulloch who was jailed in Aceh.