Sad News:Haleh Charged
May 21st, 2007The latest reports indicate that the Iranian government has charged Haleh today with “trying to topple the regime” according to a statement read on Iran’s state television.
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry accused Esfandiari, director of Middle East programs at the Smithsonian’s Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, of trying to foment a soft revolution by setting up a network “against the sovereignty” of Iran. Esfandiari was imprisoned May 8 after more than four months under virtual house arrest.
Haleh was allowed a one-minute phone call on Saturday to her mother. she only could say that she was awaiting “clarification of her situation”.





May 23rd, 2007 at 5:01 am
Holding innocent people and withholding contact with attorneys, doctors and families is a crime in itself. What could the government possibly gain by keeping a person with no political motivation behind bars? All it does is show the world what bullies and irrational minds rule Iran. I urge you to free this woman immediately.