Newsweek magazine said in a statement its correspondent Mazier Bahari, a Canadian citizen, was detained Sunday morning and has not been heard from since.The magazine defended its coverage as "fair and nuanced" and is calling for his release. More than 20 journalists have been detained in Iran over the last week.
Bahari came to Canada from Iran in 1988 as a political refugee. He has made a number of documentary films, several of them about Iran.
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