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Date: 4/3/2009 3:05:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
In their second story, you'll hear first hand from an escaped Iranian prisoner of the torture he endured over eight years for being a symbol of Iranian student revolutionaries because, unbeknownst to him, his appearance at a student rally landed him on an international magazine cover. Ahmad Batebi began his ordeal with 17 months of solitary confinement. "They kept the light on 24 hours a day. This kind of torture doesn't affect you physically, but mentally and emotionally," he tells CNN's Anderson Cooper. He says there were also brutal physical beatings over the years. As you will see in the report, Iran is a country where Islamic law-sanctioned punishments like death by stoning, slow hangings and amputations still occur.
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