Academic detained in Iran returns to US
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An Iranian-American academic returned to the United States on Thursday after being detained for eight months &#151; nearly half that time in Tehran's notorious Evin prison &#151; on charges that she had endangered national security.
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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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An American held in Hong Kong on allegations that he raped his underage daughter and posted video footage of it on the Internet has been returned to the United States, federal authorities said Thursday.
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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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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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An American student arrested last year in London on allegations of providing al-Qaida fighters with equipment to attack American soldiers was in federal custody Saturday.
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Iran on Wednesday released liberal intellectual Ramin Jahanbegloo, who was accused of working with the U.S. to overthrow the government, a human rights activist said.
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Yaser E. Hamdi, a U.S. citizen captured in Afghanistan, will be freed and allowed to return to Saudi Arabia in the next few days.
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Iranian TV airs interviews with two Iranian-American academics who have been detained in Tehran since May.
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The United States said on Friday it  is concerned Iran has arrested a journalist and stopped him  picking up a rights award in New York in a sign of what it  called worsening violations in the Islamic republic.
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American-Iranian reporter Parnaz Azima, who was prevented from leaving Iran after a visit earlier this year, has been given her passport back, Iranian Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi said on Tuesday.
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Washington scholar Haleh Esfandiari was released yesterday after more than 100 days in Iran's notorious Evin Prison, but Tehran did not indicate whether the 67-year-old grandmother still faces a trial on charges of "crimes against national security" or will be allowed to leave the country.
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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 a "disturbing pattern" of harassment of dual citizens.
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Radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, who is fighting extradition to the US on terrorism-related charges is remanded in custody.
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TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran has released from jail peace activist Ali Shakeri, the last of four Iranian-Americans imprisoned in recent months after being accused of stirring up a revolution, a judiciary spokesman said Tuesday.
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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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Iran today returned the passport of American journalist Parnaz Azima, who has been detained in Tehran since arriving to visit her ailing mother on Jan. 25, according to her family and employer, Radio Farda.