Student imprisoned in Iraq returns home

  • 2003-12-04
  • By Timothy Jacobs
RIGA - A college student who spent three months in an Iraqi prison was released by his American jailers and returned to Latvia last week.Maris Bergholds, a 23-year-old sociology student at the University of Latvia, said he was relieved to be back in Latvia but that he did not regret his decision to travel to Iraq."I wouldn't understand what was going on in Iraq if I hadn't gone there," Bergholds told The Baltic Times.Bergholds, who is Muslim, said he went to the Middle East last summer to research his senior thesis on bringing democratic values to Muslim societies.After spending time in Tur...
 
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