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Tuesday 2009-05-19 - Khuzestan, Iran
Drug arrest
We make a short stop at a little restaurant on a hill beside the road, a little before Bāgh Malek, where we watch an episode in a police series — live. The police are parked beside the road and are stopping and checking cars. Right in front of our eyes, they make a catch: a car that is transporting drug (apparently we´re on a drug trafficking route here). The two men in the car are arrested, and chained to a street lamp with one pair of handcuffs binding them together. One is meek, the other tries to talk to the policemen, apparently arguing he was only a passenger — in vain. They´re in the burning sun, and get a bottle of water to drink. A while later a police pickup truck arrives: the men are put in the back and chained to the railing, and then taken away.
