Haleh Esfandiari: I would not let them break me
Accused by Iran of aiding a US plot, this grandmother was flung into Evin jail. She tells her story in My Prison, My Home/ When Haleh Esfandiari caught sight of the moon last week as she drove home from her Washington office, she shivered. During 105 days of solitary confinement in Iran’s notorious Evin prison, a place from which many never emerge, it was glimpses of the crescent moon through her cell bars that marked the passing months. “Seeing it again reminds me how lonely I felt,” she says. Today, in her book-lined office in the Woodrow ...
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