Iran frees detained US academic - Democratic Underground

demoleft

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Tue Aug-21-07 09:02 AM
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Iran frees detained US academic

Source: BBC

An Iranian-American academic jailed during a visit to Tehran in May has been freed, the official state news agency Isna has reported.
Detained on security-related charges, Haleh Esfandiari, 67, was released for a bail of 3 billion rial ($320,000; £160,000), according to Isna.

Ms Esfandiari, who works for a research institute in Washington, was jailed while visiting her 93-year-old mother.
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Iran's Kayhan newspaper accused Ms Esfandiari of spying for the US and Israel and of trying to incite a democratic revolution.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6956946.stm

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sinkingfeeling

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Tue Aug-21-07 11:49 AM
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1. Well, that's a good thing.

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ohio2007

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Tue Aug-21-07 11:54 AM
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2. the bail seems low

Edited on Tue Aug-21-07 11:56 AM by ohio2007

wasn't that person " A CIA SPY" ?

btw
the bail, who paid it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMnlqkhxmS4

/sarc

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damntexdem

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Tue Aug-21-07 03:26 PM
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3. An authoritarian regime releases a political prisoner because of international pressure.

Too bad the same doesn't work on the authoritarian regime that imprisons the innocent as well as the guilty at Gitmo.

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LeftishBrit

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Thu Aug-23-07 12:12 PM
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4. I am glad she's been released....

and what's a 'democratic revolution'?

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