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...plane and threw him in jail for five days.“Officers in the cell were drunk, abusive, and volatile,” Bakshi says. He managed to make a cell phone call to a Zimbabwean acquaintance, who in turn alerted the U.S. embassy and Bakshi??s family and friends. American diplomats and Leverett House Senior Tutor Judy Goroff helped to secure Bakshi??s release.Bakshi says that his experiences in Zimbabwe have been “terrifying but fabulous.” He’s interviewed opposition figures as well as officials...
...State Department previously withheld confirmation of Bakshi??s account because federal law requires that the government possess a waiver from an American citizen before releasing information about that person...
...detainment has reinforced Bakshi??s convictions as he considers what path to pursue after he graduates, he said...
...editorial “No House Arrests” (Jan. 12) that the detention of Amar C. Bakshi ’06 in Zimbabwe must not result in the College re-tightening its travel policy, we disagree with the staff’s outlined reasons. The editorial stated that Bakshi??s ordeal should not concern Harvard because it was self-financed and because, under the current policy, it is debatable whether research in a country like Zimbabwe would be eligible for Harvard funding anyway. This argument ignores the main reason why, last spring, we helped rally 400 students...
...Third World prison in appalling conditions for four days is all but unthinkable for those of us living in cushy Cambridge. Despite the seriousness of what happened, we are pleased that no one in the Office of International Programs nor in the wider College administration is reacting to Bakshi??s adventure with talk of re-tightening international travel policies. Until recently, the College enforced a policy that denied funding as well as study credit for students traveling to areas for which the State Department had issued medium-level travel warnings. Since this policy affected mostly undergraduates, a number...