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Iranian Memoir By Freed Prisoner Haleh Esfandiari

The New York Review of Books | Claire Messud | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books

In Emin Prison Claire Messud The New York Review of Books "My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran" by Haleh Esfandiari. Ecco, ...

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Maziar Bahari Tells Of Ordeal In Tehran Prison

newsweek.com | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

Read More: Maziar Bahari Arrested, Maziar Bahari Released, Evin Prison, Iran Election, Iran Prisoners, Iran, Tehran, Foreign Affairs, Maziar Bahari, World News

For day after day, month after month, following his imprisonment in Iran on June 21, documentary filmmaker and NEWSWEEK correspondent Maziar Bahari di...

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Maziar Bahari, Newsweek Reporter Jailed In Iran, Faces Personal Ordeal

AP | SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Journalism in Iran, Iran, Maziar Bahari Arrested, Evin Prison, Newsweek Reporter, Maziar Bahari, Media News

BEIRUT — Newsweek reporter Maziar Bahari, who has been imprisoned in Iran for more than three months, got troubling news: His wife is having a d...

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Iranian Blogger Said To Be In Solitary Confinement For Three Weeks

nytimes.com | Robert Mackey | Posted 11.12.2009 | World

Read More: Tehran, Iran, Evin Prison, Journalists in Jail, Iranian Blogger Arrested, Fariba Pajouh, Tehran's Evin Prison, World News

On Friday, an Iranian blogger and human rights activist, Mojtaba Samienejad, reported that a fellow blogger who had been working as a journalist for a...

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Freed Academic Haleh Esfandiari: 'Iranians Want Evolution, Not Revolution'

Diane Tucker | Posted 10.01.2009 | World

Read More: Evin Prison, Kennebunkport, Harsh Interrogations, Iran Election, One Million Signatures Campaign, Iran Regime Change, Iran, Iran Liveblogging, Diane Tucker, Mental Stress, Green Wave, The Inner Life, Voting Problems, Haleh Esfandiari, Civil Rights, Stress, Green Movement, Iran Post Election Crisis, Women’s Rights, Kian Tajbakhsh, Press Freedom, Mixed Marriage, Women’s Books, Voting, Fear Watch, Tehron Mass Trial, Twitter, Hijab, Iran Solitary Confinement, Middle East Politics, European Union, Georgia, Color Revolution, Obama Mideast Trip, Velvet Revolution, Islamic Veil, Iran Protest Movement, Ukraine, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Nico Pitney Iran Liveblogging, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Haleh Esfandiari Solitary Confinement, Bush Administration, My Prison My Home, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Iran Family Protection Law, Islamic Revolution, Democracy Promotion, Diane Tucker Iran Blogs, Iranian Women’s Rights, Voter’s Rights, Woodrow Wilson Center, Iran's Cultural Prison, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, World News

Every two or three years, there has been a wave of protests like this in Iran. But this time I think there has been a fundamental change.

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Rape and the Republic: Iran's Victims Speak Out

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 09.17.2009 | World

Read More: Kayhan Newspaper, Nader Sani, Taraneh Mousavi, Kahrizak Prison, Evin Prison, Rape, Divorce, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iranian, Iranian Presidential Election, Prison Rape, Democracy, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Supreme Leader, Prison Abuse, Systematic Rape, Shahram Azam, Ali Khamenei, Iranian Newspaper, Etemaad-E Melli, Mehdi Karroubi, Ali Larijani, Ziba Kazemi, Babak Daad, Sexual Violation, Hossein Shariatmadari, Nina Aghdam, Azar Ale-Kanan, Iranian Political Prisoners, Islamic Republic of Iran, World News

This week, Mehdi Karroubi came under fire for stating what for decades has been public knowledge in Iran: The systematic rape of political prisoners as a means of permanently disabling them from society, let alone from political activity.

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Kahrizak Prison, Holding Iranian Protesters, Ordered Closed After Abuses

AP | NASSER KARIMI | Posted 08.28.2009 | World

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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Tuesday released 140 people detained in Iran's postelection turmoil and the supreme leader ordered the closure of a priso...

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Let Me Introduce You to One of the People Imprisoned in Iran

Trita Parsi | Posted 08.20.2009 | World

Read More: Bijan Khajepour, Iran, Iran Arrests, Iran Elections, Us-Iran, Evin Prison, Atieh Bahar Consulting, Mir Hussein Moussavi, World News

As Iran's election crisis continues, hundreds if not thousands of prisoners remain in Iran's notorious Evin prison. Let me introduce you to one of them.

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The Rape of Taraneh: Prison Abuse of Iran's Protesters

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 08.15.2009 | World

The strategies and ultimate goals are the same for any kind of torture: to humiliate, disembody, extract confessions and permanently terrorize the victims to prevent further 'disturbances'.

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Lessons for Americans from Roxana Saberi's Release

Sam Sedaei | Posted 06.11.2009 | World

Read More: Nonviolent Action, Reporters Without Borders, Roxana Saberi, United States, Iran, Evin Prison, Barack Obama, World News

Roxana Saberi's story should be the beginning of another story, and that is the US government's speaking up about human rights atrocities in all parts of the world, rather than just Darfur.

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Hostage Diplomacy: Roxana Saberi and the Three Jailed Iranian Diplomats

Omid Memarian | Posted 05.31.2009 | World

Read More: Roxana Saberi, Evin Prison, President Ahmadinejad, The Revolutionary Guard, Barack Obama, Tehran, World News

The US has to come to the realization that it's impossible to take three Iranian diplomats hostage for almost two years, no matter what you call them, and then expect the Iranian government to release Roxana Saberi.

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Roxana Saberi's Parents Visit Her In Iran's Evin Prison

AP | NASSER KARIMI | Posted 05.07.2009 | World

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TEHRAN, Iran — The parents of an American-Iranian journalist jailed for two months in Iran visited their daughter in prison on Monday, their law...

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Mir-Sayafi: Iranian Blogger's Writings Bring Him To Life

Huffington Post | Telmah Parsa | Posted 04.20.2009 | World

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"I have never been a person who would stoop to self-censoring and will never be," wrote young Iranian blogger Omid-Reza Mir-Sayafi on his blog in 2006...

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Iran's Women Are Taking On The Mullahs

The Independent | Katherine Butler | Posted 03.29.2009 | World

Read More: Alieh Egham Doost, Women's Rights, Iranian Women, Iran Headscarf, Evin Prison, Shirin Ebadi, Iran, Iran Islamic Revolution, Mullahs, Sharia Law, Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran Women's Movement, Women's Lives in Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran, World News

Zohreh Vatankhah slides into the driving seat of her BMW X3, flicks a switch to some pulsating Persian pop and we're soon zipping along the narrow lan...

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Mass Execution In Iran For Drug Traffickers, Murderers

Iranfocus.com | Posted 02.22.2009 | World

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Tehran, Iran, Jan. 22 - Iranian authorities hanged 22 people over the past two days. Ten people were mass executed on Wednesday in Tehran's notorio...

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