How Leonard Cohen brought comfort to an Iranian jail cell
In 2009, Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was imprisoned for 118 days in Tehran's notorious Evin prison. He says the memory of Leonard Cohen's song Sisters of Mercy helped him make it through that ordeal by giving him a place in his mind that his captors couldn't touch.
Leonard Cohen, a giant of song and literature, died this week at the age of 82.
Cohen's voice and words meant a great deal to many, many people. But Cohen hold's an especially dear place in Maziar Bahari's heart.
Bahari is an Iranian-Canadian journalist. In 2009, he was imprisoned for 118 days in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison. His story became the basis for Jon Stewart's film Rosewater.
To this day, Bahari says he survived his ordeal in large part because of Leonard Cohen's song "Sisters of Mercy."
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