Freed Scholar Recounts Time In Iranian Prison
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Seeing the sliver of a new moon from her cell became the marker of Haleh Esfandiari's solitary confinement, thousands of miles from home and facing an uncertain future.
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BAGHDAD: An Iranian diplomat was freed on Monday after a 55-day hostage ordeal at the hands of the same militant group which is holding two French newsmen, as 19 people were killed in fresh Iraq violence.
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Iranian diplomat Fereidoun Jahani,  kidnapped in Iraq last month, has been released, the Iranian  embassy in Baghdad said on Monday, adding he was in good health  but tired.
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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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LONDON, Sep 28 (IranMania) - An Iranian diplomat taken hostage in Iraq nearly two months ago was freed Monday and returned safely to the Iranian embassy in Baghdad, asserting no deal had been made with his kidnappers, Agence France Press  reported.
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An Iranian-American academic detained in Iran will be freed soon on bail, the judge in charge of his case said on Tuesday.
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A senior leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the West Bank was released after two years of detention in an Israeli jail, Palestinian witnesses said Thursday.
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By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI NEW YORK - When Iranian journalist Mojtaba Saminejad was sentenced to two years in prison for insulting the country's Supreme Leader, it was not for an article that appeared in a newspaper. His offending story was posted on his personal Web blog.
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American journalist Paul Salopek was released Saturday from a prison in the war-torn Darfur region where he was held for more than a month on espionage charges.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- American journalist Paul Salopek was released yesterday from a prison in the war-torn Darfur region where he was held for more than a month on espionage charges.
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Most of the 33 Iranian women activists arrested earlier in the week in Tehran have been freed from jail.
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WASHINGTON -- Iranian television yesterday aired images of two imprisoned Americans for the first time and said it will show a documentary tomorrow that includes confessions by scholar Haleh Esfandiari, of Potomac, Md., and New York-based social scientist Kian Tajbakhsh.
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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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Three students jailed for up to three years on charges including insulting Iran's Supreme Leader have been granted release on bail of about $85,000 each, their lawyer said on Tuesday.
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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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Iranian-Canadian intellectual and author Ramin Jahanbegloo is freed after nearly four months in custody, agencies report.
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Haleh Esfandiari left Iran yesterday, but a scholar who was arrested along with her is still being held.