I don’t buy the story.
“They seized our passports and then four of these characters squeezed into our taxi to “take us to government headquarters.” Frantic, we started calling everyone we knew—local lawyers and activists, friends back home, the U.S. Embassy.” They seized their passports and not their cell phones? Come on who is BS’ing whom?
Excellent point! Why take the passports and not the phones. Sounds like a photo op situation to me.