June 1, 2007
Middle East Scholars Protest Iran's Arrest of Wilson Center Scholar
The arrest of a prominent Iranian-American academic in Iran has led to widespread protests by American scholars and fears that the move could lead to the isolation of intellectuals in the Islamic Republic.
On May 8, Haleh Esfandiari, 67, director of the Middle East program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, was taken to Evin Prison, notorious as a place for political prisoners both before and after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. She had been under virtual house
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