Free Haleh

Haleh Esfandiari is the Director of the Middle East program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She was detained and arrested in Iran while visiting her aging mother in December and prevented from leaving the country. She was subsequently threatened, pressured, and repeatedly questioned by security authorities. Most recently, on May 8, 2007, she was arrested without charges and taken to Evin Prison.

Please read MESA's Committee on Academic Freedom's Letter to Ahmedinejad and visit the Free Haleh site to sign the petition on her behalf.
Juan Cole has decided to pull out of a conference in Iran to protest Haleh's detainment. Alse see Robin Wright's Boycott Threat Puts Pressure on Iran to Release Scholar