U.S. scholar back home after detention in Iran
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Haleh Esfandiari, the Iranian-American scholar who was held in Iran for eight months, has returned to her home in Potomac, Maryland, her husband, Shaul Bakhash, told CNN.
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Human Rights Watch today reported the disappearance of another U.S. citizen believed to have been detained during a visit to Iran.
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Iran has released Kian Tajbakhsh, an Iranian-American academic held in prison since May on charges of endangering Iran's security, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported Thursday.
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It was a hard enough day for Shaul Bakhash, as he dealt with the ongoing drama surrounding the imprisonment in Iran of his wife, noted American scholar Haleh Esfandiari. Then he found an express letter on the doorstep of his Potomac home yesterday morning announcing that Citibank had frozen his...
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A leading Muslim scholar who was barred from the United States at the request of the Department of Homeland Security has reapplied for the right to work there, saying Wednesday he has always condemned terrorism.
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Seven Saudis released from the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay returned home on Wednesday and were promptly detained to see if they had terrorist connections, the official Saudi Press Agency reported.
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Iran's judiciary confirmed on Tuesday the detention of an Iranian-American social scientist on charges of spying, one of a number that U.S. officials and think-tanks had reported held.
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Haleh Esfandiari left Iran yesterday, but a scholar who was arrested along with her is still being held.
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A man who had been held in Ethiopia on allegations of supporting Islamic militants has been released and is back home, his family and their lawyer said Saturday night.
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A prominent European Muslim scholar has  been prevented from taking up a post at Notre Dame University  in Indiana after U.S. authorities revoked his visa, the  university said on Tuesday.
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Sixteen Saudis released from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, returned home Thursday and were being held by Saudi authorities to determine if they have any terrorist ties.
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Out of jail, but with charges still pending, Ramin Jahanbegloo, an Iranian philosopher returned to New Dehli to finish his latest book, âIndia Revisited: Conversations on Contemporary India.â
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TEHRAN, Iran  -- An Iranian-American academic imprisoned for months before being released on bail in August was permitted to leave Iran and was reuniting with her family in Austria, her daughter said Monday.
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U.S. troops freed the eldest son of powerful Iraqi Shi'ite politician Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim on Friday after detaining him for several hours at a border checkpoint with Iran, Iraqi officials said.
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A Kuwaiti diplomat who was beaten as he left his country's embassy in Tehran will be flown home for treatment Wednesday, and the Kuwaiti government is awaiting results of an Iranian investigation into the attack, a Kuwaiti official said.
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Iran has released on bail a U.S.-Iranian peace activist, Ali Shakeri, the last of four dual nationals to be freed after being detained on security-related charges, an Iranian news agency said on Tuesday.
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A U.S.-Iranian academic, freed on bail last month after more than three months in detention over spying accusations, flew out of Iran overnight and her case may not come to trial, one of her lawyers said on Monday.