April 10, 2007
British Captives, He Said/She Said, and Ping Pong
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) — Iranian state television aired video Sunday of 15 British sailors and marines watching football on television, eating, laughing and playing ping-pong and chess during nearly two weeks in Iranian custody.
The images, aired on Iran’s Arabic-language network al-Alam, appeared to refute the former captives’ account of psychological pressure. The images showed they were held “in comfort” and that they enjoyed “complete freedom” during their captivity, the network said.
While in custody, some of the detainees confessed to straying into Iranian waters while on patrol in the northern Persian Gulf — but they recanted upon return to Britain on Thursday.
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