The following is a forward I wrote for a new report by Physicians for Human Rights on Solitary Confinement in the US Detention System.

Sitting in a nearly empty cell -- a metal sink, the blank stare of the white walls, fluorescent lights that...

You may know me as one of the three American Hikers held hostage in Iran. I was released two years ago today. It was, in many ways, the best and worst day of my life. I was finally in my mother's arms, but Shane and Josh were completely out of...

Three years ago, while sipping coffee and watering my plants in my apartment in Damascus, Syria, I turned on my TV and images of the streets of Tehran erupted in my living room.

Iran's movement for freedom, human rights and democracy began with a bang on July 12, 2009....

During the 410 days that I spent inside the closed walls of Evin Prison, I often wondered what the human beings alongside me were being punished for. Through the few scattered, clandestine conversations I was able to have with other women prisoners, I learned that I was being held in...

Abbas Hakimzadeh is a good listener. He's not prone to talking about himself but he is eager to talk about the status of the student movement in Iran, of which he himself is a seasoned veteran and three-time political prisoner.

"There are no longer student protests in the streets...

On September 14th, 2010, the day I was to be released by the Iranian Government after being held hostage for 410 days, I would not sign the papers they put in front of me without my lawyer, Mr. Masoud Shafii, present.

Frustrated by my obstinance, the unnamed man who...