Posts Tagged: Ahmad Batebi
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Ahmad Batebi Speaks

As protests over the disputed Iranian presidential election continue into their third day, the New York Times checks in with Ahmad Batebi, a student who became the symbol of anti-government protests in 1999 after a photo of the 21-year-old holding a bloody shirty appeared on the cover of The Economist. After the Economist cover, he was tortured and imprisoned. The magazine caught up with him last year.