Freed Iranian-American credits hope
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At her lowest moments during more than three months in solitary confinement in Iran's most notorious prison, Haleh Esfandiari wondered if anyone remembered her or if she had been swallowed without the world noticing.
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An Iranian diplomat was freed in Iraq on Monday after a 55-day hostage ordeal at the hands of the same Islamic militants holding two French newsmen.
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A German tourist who was arrested with a Frenchman after their boat allegedly strayed into Iranian waters has been freed from prison in Iran's capital, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Monday.
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Iran officially confirmed Sunday that it is holding an Iranian-American peace activist, the fourth dual citizen the country has detained in recent months.
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Iran released New York-based social scientist Kian Tajbakhsh from Evin Prison in Tehran late last night, according to George Soros's Open Society Institute, for which Tajbakhsh has served as a consultant.
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A senior Muslim negotiator involved in trying to free Ken Bigley, the British hostage in Iraq, has expressed guarded optimism he will be freed, and the Irish government
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An Iranian-American consultant detained for months in Tehran's Evin prison told reporters during a visit to the prison Tuesday that he expects to be released soon and that Iranian authorities have raised no formal charges against him.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - An Iranian refugee claimant who spent almost three years in sanctuary in a Vancouver church before being arrested on the weekend is suddenly a free man.
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TEHRAN -- Iran yesterday released liberal intellectual Ramin Jahanbegloo, who was accused of working with the United States to overthrow the government, a human rights activist said. Ramin Jahanbegloo was released from Evin prison after four months of confinement, said Kouhyar Goodarzi, a member of the Student Committee of Human Rights Reporters of Iran. Jahanbegloo was arrested in April but ...
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Iran acknowledged for the first time today it has convicted some Iranians of supporting al-Qaida. âA few pro-al Qaida Iranian nationals have been tried and convicted,â said foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi.
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An Iranian diplomat taken hostage in Iraq last month has been released by his captors but the fate of at least 11 other foreigners, including a Briton threatened with beheading, remain unclear.
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Levar Haley Washington was finally free on parole after years in prison for robbery &#151; but unbeknownst to authorities, the Muslim convert was already plotting more serious crimes.
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Two Iranian-Americans detained in the Islamic Republic on spying charges have "accepted that they carried out some activities", an Iranian judge was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
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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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Participants at a conference questioning whether the Holocaust took place praised Iran's hard-line president on Tuesday, saying the gathering gives them the chance to air theories casting doubt on the Nazi genocide that are banned in parts of Europe.
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Online donations do the trick for Nazanin Fatehi Well done to all those Reg readers who donated cash to the campaign to release Iranian teenager Nazanin Fatehi, who secured her freedom on Wednesday.â¦
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The US military announced Tuesday that it would release nine Iranians.