The ongoing story reported by Pajamas Media about Iranian dissident Zahra Kamalfar’s two-and-a-half month exile in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport continues. The site’s accounts, updated several times a day, have a bizarro air to them, a combination of the hellish Kafka-style plight of Kamalfar, the particular details of the story and the medium— that is, the fact that it’s almost exclusively an internet story, all unadorned digital video and streaming roughly translated horrors.

Recent plot twists, for example, include a mysterious phone call that seems to have been the result of Russian government eavesdropping and a bureaucratic Soviet-style attempt at “disappearing” Kamalfar and her children by offering to “take them to a better place.”

The video at the heart of the story, smuggled out by an Afghan student, is shot in the transit section of the airport, where Kamalfar is essentially imprisoned with her kids. It’s a clandestine interview filmed against a white-wall backdrop under florescent lights. It recalls the web-based guerilla PR for Blair Witch or for Mark Z. Danielewski’s book House of Leaves, and so provokes a hesitant response: Pajamas Media? Sheremtyevo airport? Iranian dissident? Afghan-student video smuggler? Russian government goons? It is really happening. Yes it is. Pajamas broke the story and the fact of the internet is forcing action on the family’s behalf.

Just now as I type Pajamas reports that an EU court in Strasbourg has issued an order barring extradition for at least the next two weeks. That means Kamalfar’s worst fear— of being returned to Iran— has been forestalled. But does it also mean she is condemned to continue bathing in and serving water to her children from the airport toilets, beyond the reach of sunlight, living a Tom Hanks movie, except without the money and the crew and Spielberg and the guaranteed happy ending?