Esfandiari allowed to leave Iran
September 4, 2007 6:01 am IranFreed Scholar Recounts Time In Iranian Prison - washingtonpost.com, September 4, 2007
Seeing the sliver of a new moon from her cell became the marker of Haleh Esfandiari’s solitary confinement, thousands of miles from home and facing an uncertain future.
“I was sitting in my cell and through the bars I saw it and I said, Oh, my God, there is the moon, ” said the Washington scholar, who was allowed to leave Iran early yesterday after being detained there for eight months by authorities who said she was a national security threat. “A month later I saw the moon again, and then I saw it a third time. It was quite tough. I was lonely and anxious.”