Word: bakshis
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Bakshi managed to place a cell phone call from a bathroom stall to a Zimbabwean journalist, who then alerted the U.S. embassy...
...Leverett House assistant senior tutor, Judy Murciano-Goroff, worked with U.S. embassy officials and Zimbabwean contacts to secure Bakshi's release...
...Bakshi said that Zimbabwean officers first threw him into a solitary cell and then moved him into a larger facility with 120 other detainees. He said the prisoners were not allowed to wear shoes, go outside, or use a proper restroom...
...Although Bakshi said that officials from the United States embassy in Harare brought him meals, he said the other detainees only received food every one or two days. He said that some of the other detainees had been held for over a week...
...obviously very frightening," his mother, Gita Chopra Bakshi, said in a phone interview. "My reaction was...my God, what have they done...