1.0 link 48443 <![CDATA[A Mother Imprisoned]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sheila-weller/a-mother-imprisoned_b_48443.html This month did not bring the happy Mother's Day that Haleh Bakhash, 40, of Washington, D.C., had once anticipated--not with her mother Haleh Esfandiari, languishing unjustly in an Iranian jail.

The last time Bakhash saw her mom was in December, just before Esfandiari flew off to Iran for what was supposed to be a brief visit to her own mother, 93. A noted Iranian American scholar, Esfandiari was planning to return to the United States from Tehran at the end of...

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