(AP-Washington Post) Marcus Hellwig, 46, a reporter for Germany's mass-circulation Bild am Sonntag, was arrested with his photographer after entering Iran on a tourist visa in October 2010 and interviewing the son of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery in a case that generated international outrage. Hellwig was held in a facility run by the Pasdaran, Iran's feared Revolutionary Guard elite forces. His book Inshallah. Captive in Iran is being released in German on Friday.
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