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Zimbabwean officials detained Amar C. Bakshi ‘06 on espionage charges late last month after he visited the African country to conduct thesis research on political propaganda, the Leverett House senior said...
...increasingly autocratic regime of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe held the student for five days inside a cell that "reeked of feces," Bakshi said...
...Bakshi, who hails from Washington D.C., said he boarded a British Airways jet to return to the United States on Dec. 30, but Zimbabwean authorities called him off the plane and would not let him leave the country...
...Bakshi said that members of Zimbabwe’s Central Intelligence Organization accused him of "spying and sabotage" and told him his Harvard connections were "just a cover...
According to Bakshi, Zimbabwean authorities threatened him by saying, "No one will know if you’re here....No one will know if you’re not here...