{"id":630,"date":"2004-07-07T16:54:11","date_gmt":"2004-07-07T20:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/metasj\/2004\/07\/07\/mehran-karimi-nasseri\/"},"modified":"2010-06-12T22:49:43","modified_gmt":"2010-06-13T02:49:43","slug":"mehran-karimi-nasseri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2004\/07\/07\/mehran-karimi-nasseri\/","title":{"rendered":"Mehran Karimi Nasseri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a479'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally granted a residency permit in 1999, and now wealthy enough to support himself on the outside, Nasseri did not leave Paris National Airport until he fell ill in 2006.  (<b>Update: see <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/reinventing-mehran-nasseri\/\">Reinventing Mehran Nasseri<\/a><\/b>.)<\/p>\n<h3> As of 2004<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p><i>As of the summer of 2004, Nasseri is <b>still living in the airport<\/b>. He does not lack for money &#x2014; Dreamworks paid him a rumored $250,000 for the rights to his story.<\/i>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He had no bank accounts, so the checks were being held by <b>Christian Bourguet<\/b>, the famous lawyer who took on his case a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>As for the plastic red bench, which has served as his de facto home for the last 15 years and must by now be a collector&#8217;s item, he says, <i>&#8220;I&#8217;ll take it to DreamWorks&#8230; and send it by FedEx.&#8221;<\/i> [NYT]<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=%22Merhan+Karimi+Nasseri%22'>Search for Mehran Karimi Nasseri &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<h3> 2006-2008 <\/h3>\n<p>Tina comments:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<i>Nasseri\u2019s life at the airport ended in July 2006 when he was hospitalized and his sitting place dismantled. Towards the end of January 2007, he left the hospital and was looked after by the airport\u2019s branch of the French Red Cross; he was lodged for a few weeks in a hotel close to the airport. On March 6, 2007, he transferred to an Emmaus charity reception centre in Paris\u2019s twentieth arrondissement. As of 2008, he continues to live in a Paris shelter.<\/i>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/reinventing-mehran-nasseri\/\">Since 2008<\/a> <\/h3>\n<p>I have been unable to find reliable information about Nasseri&#8217;s whereabouts and life since his transfer to a Paris shelter or halfway house in 2007.  If anyone knows of his whereabouts since then, or has visited with him, please post details to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/reinventing-mehran-nasseri\/\">this longer essay about him<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally granted a residency permit in 1999, and now wealthy enough to support himself on the outside, Nasseri did not leave Paris National Airport until he fell ill in 2006. (Update: see Reinventing Mehran Nasseri.) As of 2004 As of the summer of 2004, Nasseri is still living in the airport. 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