the arrest of edward chaplin by iran was big news in 1987. socks and a lady“s purse, i think were nicked from the arndale centre, from bhs, ithink. and so he was ordered to report to a police station a week later, i think. and when he failed to show, the police went looking for him and he, in the phrase of the police report, i think resisted arrest. so there was a scuffle. this afternoon, the iranian, ali qassemi, went to the foreign office to show off his injuries, such as they were. there are signs of. torture by the police. this the iranians took as a mortal, mortal insult that one of their diplomats, as they saw it, had been beaten up by the british police. and so the iranian reaction was that this had happened to somebody else, so another diplomat had to be mistreated, just as mr oassemi had in their eyes been mistreated. edward chaplin was stopped as he was driving his family home yesterday afternoon. he was beaten up and taken away... i was moved around from one detention centre to another during the 2a hours. it was quite, quite livel