Glenn Greenwald: "Detaining My Partner: A Failed Attempt at Intimidation"

[JDPriestly]

94. They held him for 9 hours.

Have you ever been held and questioned by police in a country that was hostile either to you or to your country?

I have. It is terrifying. My experience was in Eastern Europe in the 1960s. I was with others including a young person who was a citizen of the country and the only one of us who spoke the language. We had been visiting the grave of a close family member at the border between two Eastern European countries, one of which was a commonly used route for escapes from the other.

We were held for what seemed an eternity, but was not nearly as long as 9 hours.

Sitting 9 hours in detention in a hostile country is like sitting in purgatory for 9 hours. If you haven't had the experience, you are just not paranoid enough to be realistic in today's world.