- It feels wrong to focus on an arrest amid mass slaughter but that instinct itself is misleading. An arrest by that regime is still an egregious act, and outrage doesn’t need to be reserved for the worst possible outcome.
- #Iran: Mehdi Mahmoudian, the co-writer of Oscar-nominated film It Was Just an Accident, has been arrested in Iran. His crime? Signing a statement condemning the recent bloodshed in the country. Another example of how far the government will go to control the narrative.