“He is interviewed every week, and above all, big change, he can call us,” reports independent journalist Solène Chalvon-Fioriti

What state of mind is Mortaza Behboudi in today, nine months after this detention? “At the moment, there is more hope, because the first months of Mortaza’s detention were appalling, in an Afghan intelligence prison. Today, he is in a justice process. He is interviewed every weeks, and above all big change, he can call us”reports Solène Chalvon-Fioriti, independent journalist, senior reporter and director of the film Afghanswho knows Mortaza Behboudi well.

“Still very journalistic”

What was the content of the telephone exchanges between Solène Chalvon-Fioriti and her Franco-Afghan colleague Mortaza Behboudi? “The first time, I was so surprised, I was in the metro, that I think I was really stupid. He needed to empty his bag and then he resumed his natural temperament, which is to be a fighter, and he said ‘I absolutely want to write about what is happening around me in prison.’ He was still very much a journalist, and assured of the fact that there was still very great support behind him, and that ‘he had to hold on’relates Solène Chalvon-Fioriti.