Hanif,one of Iranian bloggers who had been arrested and jailed for blogging, says [1][Fa]that Haleh Esfandiari [2],Iranian-American scholar, contrary to many other former prisoners,after leaving Iran,told that she had not been mistreated in prison.Hanif says according to his prison experience,political prisoners had been asked by security agents to talk positively about their prison time after being released.He adds that if we did not obey their requests our friends would stay in jail.Hanif says Esfandiari is in the same situation and she is still a prisoner.There are at least a couple of American-Iranians still in Iran.
Iran:”Haleh Esfandiari is still a prisoner”
· Written by Fred Petrossian
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