Freed Scholar Leaves Iran; Another Still 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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27 September 2004 -- An Iranian diplomat was freed by his captors in Iraq today after spending more than a month as a hostage. Iran&#39;s Foreign Ministry confirmed that Faridoun Jahani, the Iranian consul in
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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 journalist held in her native country for months and accused of security-related offenses was permitted to leave Iran, her employer said Tuesday.
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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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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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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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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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Iran releases on bail the last of four US-Iranian dual nationals detained on security charges, reports say.
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Ali Akbar Mousavi Khoini, a former Iranian lawmaker who has been jailed without charges in Tehran for more than 100 days, was briefly released from detention last Thursday to attend a memorial service, where he shouted out allegations of torture and other harsh treatment, according to his lawyers...
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An Iranian diplomat who was seized in Iraq last month is freed, but the fate of other hostages is unclear.
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An Iranian-American academic has been released from detention in Tehran's Evin prison after being held since May, the Open Society Institute said on Wednesday.
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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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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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BAGHDAD, SEPTEMBER 27: An Iranian diplomat, Fereidoun Jahani, taken hostage in Iraq last month, was released on Monday amid continued violence countrywide, underlining a warning by US Secretary of State Colin Powell that Iraqâs insurgency was worsening.
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Some 100 members of the Iranian antiregime group have left a holding camp in Iraq in recent weeks. Iran says amnesty offer holds.
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A U.S.-Iranian academic, who was detained for more than three months on spying accusations and freed on bail in August, flew out of Iran overnight, one of her lawyers said on Monday.