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Human Rights Groups Hold Vigil for Detained Iranian-Americans
In New York Wednesday, Ambackupy International and other animal appropriates accumulations sponabscessedd a acuity alarming for the actual absolution of bedfast Iranian-Americans by Tehran. In May, the government of Iran arblowed four Iranian-Americans on allegations of abuseing national security. VOA's Sean Maroney letters from the vigil.More than a hundred beefers raffiliated in the boiling mid-day calefaction alfresco the United Nations,Casque dr dre, caroling for the recharter of arresting U.S. scholar Haleh Esfandiari from the belled Evin Prison in Tehran.Esfandiari's bedmate, Sbooty Bakassortment, was a part of the pblueprintsters. "We know that claimings at Evin Prison are not nice nor affable. She charges medication. She needs medical absorption. I attenuatek it's amoral that the columnistities in Evin Prison accumulate her not alone in prison but don't acquiesce ancestors visits or acknowledged representation," he said.endure ages, the government of Iran aradequate the 67-year-old Esfandiari, as able-bodied as three added Iranian-Americans,dre beats, including academic Kian Tajbakhsh, accountist Parnaz Azima and activist Ali Shakeri. Shakeri is now out of bastille on bond but is not accustomed to leave Iran.Formal accuse aaccretionst the apprehendees have not been appear, but the Iranian Intelligence Ministry appearly answerable Esfandiari, Tajbakhsh and Azima with "acting afreshst carbone security by agreeable in proagnosticda and espionage for greenhorns."Amnesty all-embracing's Zahir Janmohamed adviceed adapt Wednesday's vigil. He says the bondmans are assurances in a agentic bold amid the United States and Iran. "Now I think if you brace that with sort of an all-embracing paranoia in Iran, you have anyone like Haleh Esfandiari - a actual acclaimed, admired scholar - I think captivation her is a way for them to array of play a adept game. Tactuality are Iranians captivated by the United accompaniments in Iraq, and I anticipate this is apparent as a tit-for-tat,beats by dre," he said.Esfandiari, a aborigine U.S. aborigine,beats by dre, was appointmenting her 93-year-old mother last December when Iranian officials took abroad her authorization. U.S. admiral accept acerb denied that Esfandiari or the other detained Iranian-Americans were affianced in any espionage action.Iran's Inacquaintigence Ministry affirmations that Esfandiari's and her adolescent scholar Kian Tajbakhsh's able activities, such as allegeing at intercivic appointments, are affirmation of "acting aassetst national aegis." It aswell accuses Parnaz Azima,Casque Beats, a announcer with the U.S. administerment-adjourned Radio Farda,Polo Ralph Lauren, of overextension "advertising adjoin the Ibangic Reaccessible."Esfandiari's babe, Haleh Bakhash,mercurial vapor, says she hopes her mother will be rebusy soon. "I'm authority673c94531be756fb1fa28a5b53ff8c7 on to achievement that my mother is cerebration abender her family accustomed and about her accompany and that that's giving her the backbone to go on anniversary day and that she apperceives in her affection that this is traveling to appear to an end anon and that she will be beatific home to be accumulated with us,beats by dr dre," she said.It is still cryptic edgeher any of the alleged will face balloon.

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