Leading International Educator Group Issues Resolution on Detention of Scholar Haleh Esfandiari

by E Wayne Ross on June 2, 2007

NAFSA: Association of International Educators issued a resolution at its business meeting Thursday in Minneapolis urging the government of Iran to immediately release Iranian-American scholar Haleh Esfandiari. Esfandiari, who directs the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, has been imprisoned in Tehran since May 8, charged with “seeking to topple the ruling Islamic establishment.” The NAFSA resolution comes as academics continue to step up their protests of Iran’s actions with letters and petitions.

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