"Former (Seattle) P-I reporter Dorothy Parvaz was handcuffed, heard beatings " (with video)

seattlepi.com with video (05:23):

Dorothy Parvaz, a former Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter freed Tuesday after being detained in Syria and Iran for weeks, said she was handcuffed and blindfolded in Syria, where she heard the sounds of "savage beatings."

"I was handcuffed repeatedly, blindfolded, taken to a courtyard and just left to hear these men being beaten," Parvaz told Al Jazeera, her current employer. MORE...