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I'm Tammy Walker and I produce podcasts for the BBC.

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podcast we've got on BBC Sounds. You're listening to the Witness History podcast from the BBC World Service with me Dan Hardoon.

I'm taking you back to the aftermath of Iran's presidential elections in 2009.

Hardline Conservative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had just been re-elected,

beating the reformist candidate Meir Hussein Musavi by a landslide. But the election

was seen as rigged by the millions of Iranians who gathered in the streets to

protest the result. I've been speaking to Madzia Bahari, an Iranian journalist who reported on the election

and spent 118 days inside Iran's notorious Evan prison accused of being a Western spy.

It was just physically and psychologically a horrifying experience, especially the solitary confinement aspect of it.

During the first few days of my imprisonment, I was interrogated up to 16-17 hours a day. I was beaten in my

shoulders I was beaten in my head.

Masjar had been based in London where he worked as a freelance journalist.

As the presidential election loomed in Iran, he travelled to his home country to cover it for the American magazine Newsweek.

I thought that the presidential election was going one of the most pivotal moments in Iranian

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