Freitag, Juli 20, 2007

Arash Sahami won the television documentary award at the Amnesty International Media .


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Amnesty International award


The undercover documentary Execution of a teenage girl produced by Arash Sahami (left in the picture) won the television documentary award at the Amnesty International Media .

Arash Sahami and his team risked their lives by going undercover in Iran to capture the story of this little girl and the tragic end to her life..


Newspaper article in Farsi about Atefah's execution
The Observer (July, 2006) described the documentary as:


An almost impossible to watch documentary about the life of Atefeh Sahaaleh. a 16-year-old girl
who was hanged in a public square in Iran in 2004 after being charged with ‘crimes against chastity’. Using eyewitness accounts, reconstructions and undercover footage, the programme slowly recreates Atefeh’s life and shows why the same life was brutally extinguished. At times you really just want to look away from the screen unable to believe this is happening - but don’t, because this truly is one of the best documentaries of the year and one of the most important