Haleh Esfandiari describes her imprisonment in Iran
September 16, 2007 9:00 am IranHeld in My Homeland - washingtonpost.com, September 16, 2007
On May 8, I was arrested by agents of Iran’s intelligence ministry on suspicion of working to destabilize the Islamic Republic. For the next 105 days, this cell in Ward 209 of Tehran’s Evin Prison would be my “home.”
…I dreamed of my leisurely Sunday morning coffee with my husband, Shaul, and my weekend dinners with my daughter, Haleh, and my grandchildren….
Late in the afternoon of Aug. 23, my senior interrogator came to Evin and told me to pack my things. I was free to go. Ten days later I had my passport, and on Sept. 3, I boarded an Austrian Airlines flight for Vienna.