June 8, 2007
The Arrest of Haleh Esfandiari
On May 8, the Iranian government arrested the Iranian-American scholar Haleh Esfandiari on charges of encouraging a "soft revolution" against the Islamic government and detained her in the infamous Evin Prison. Many scholars and academic groups have protested the detention of Ms. Esfandiari, who is director of the Middle East program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and an advocate of increased dialogue between the United States and Iran. Last week the seriousness of
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