Syrian journalist Manar Al-Rashwani wrote an article in the Jordanian Al-Ghad magazine exploring Haleh’s arrest and deploring the detention of such a prominent intellectual.

Esfandiari’s arrest looked more like a kidnapping made by outlaws than it was an arrest made by a state governed by laws. How else can this detention be described? After all Esfandiari has endured four months of interrogations, which started only after her American and Iranian passports were stolen.

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