Md. Bank Freezes Funds of Scholar Jailed in Tehran
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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 w...
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The Bush administration moved Tuesday to block the assets of two Saudi men accused of providing support to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terror network, Adel Batterjee and Saad al-Faqih.
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Kian Tajbakhsh, an urban planner with ties to the Open Society Institute, was arrested in May and released early Thursday, but he is not allowed to leave the country yet.
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An Iranian-American woman detained in Tehran is being held illegally and has been repeatedly denied access to attorneys, Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi told CNN on Friday. Haleh Esfandiari and other Iranian-Americans held in Iran are political prisoners, said Ebadi, one of Haleh Esfandiari's attorneys. Ebadi -- who won the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize and is the founder of the Center for Defense of Human Rights in Tehran -- was once held in the same prison as Esfandiari.
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The lawyer for an Iranian-American academic being held by Tehran on charges of endangering national security said Thursday that she has prevented from representing her client by Iranian authorities.
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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.
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The Bank of England on Friday froze all funds linked to the London-based Saudi dissident Saad al-Faqih, just one day after the United Nations listed him as an al-Qaida associate.
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A court ordered a freeze Wednesday on the assets of 29 known financiers of the Muslim brotherhood, Egypt's most powerful opposition movement.
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An American-Iranian academic, detained in Iran on spying charges, has been held in solitary confinement for 40 days, Nobel Peace prize winner and human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi said on Tuesday.
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Iran has detained a fourth Iranian American, California businessman Ali Shakeri, the U.S. State Department said on Thursday, calling his arrest part of a "disturbing pattern" of harassment of dual citizens.
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Thailand&#39;s anti-graft panel said Monday it would freeze assets held by ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra and his family, totalling at least 52.9 billion baht (1.52 billion dollars).
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Europe's second-highest court on Tuesday annulled an EU decision freezing the funds of an exiled Iranian opposition group that argues it was wrongly placed on the European Union's list of terrorist organizations.
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A celebration scheduled for this weekend at Montgomery County's new hotel and conference center, marking the 26th anniversary of the Islamic revolution in Iran, was canceled after the hotel's operator learned that it would violate federal law.
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A federal judge Thursday froze the assets of Rep. William Jefferson, the Louisiana Democrat who was indicted this week on charges of soliciting bribes.
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An Iranian-American detained in Iran said on state television on Thursday she had concluded that a network of research centers and universities she had helped create had aims which would weaken the Iranian government.
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Iran releases a second Iranian-American academic who had been detained in Tehran since May.
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More than Â£1m worth of property belonging to a brother of an alleged IRA leader are frozen.