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Article: Human Rights: Esfandiari's My Prison, My Home Book Release
- Article from:
- The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
- Article date:
- November 1, 2009
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In 2007 the Woodrow Wilson Center's (WCC) Middle East program director, Haleh Esfandiari, was detained in her home country of Iran during a yearly visit to her mother. The Iranian government considered Esfandiari a threat that could entice a regime-changing velvet revolution and held her as a political prisoner-first under house arrest for four months, and then for four months in solitary confinement at the infamous Evin prison. Introducing her at the Sept. 14 launching of her memoir, My Prison My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran, at the WWC in Washington, DC, deputy director Michael Van Dusen stated, "We want to hear the story of what happened over there."
Esfandiari, a ...