American Freed From Iran Describes 41 Days Of Detention

When the sanctions on Iran were lifted earlier this month, as a result of the nuclear deal, we also got news that four Americans would be released from Iran, as part of a prisoner swap. Separate from that swap, another American, Matthew Trevithick, was being released.

Trevithick has worked as a journalist and a researcher for think tanks. He went to Iran in September for language study. When he left his dorm in Tehran one day to go buy his plane ticket home, and ended up being arrested. He was held in one of Iran’s most notorious prisons for 41 days, including 29 days in solitary confinement.

Trevithick speaks with Here & Now’s Meghna Chakrabarti about what it was like in Iran’s Evin Prison, and how he’s been readjusting to life in his hometown of Hingham, Massachusetts.

Guest

• Matthew Trevithick, writer, researcher and co-host of the “Sources and Methods” podcast. He worked as the director of communications at the American University of Afghanistan from 2010 to 2014. He tweets @MattTrevithick.

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