senator – Free Kian '09 / Campaign to Release Dr. Kian Tajbakhsh from detention Sun, 31 Jan 2016 17:34:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 8547299 A Plea From a Senator to Free Prisoners in Iran (Source: New York Times) /2009/09/13/a-plea-from-a-senator-to-free-prisoners-in-iran-source-new-york-times/ /2009/09/13/a-plea-from-a-senator-to-free-prisoners-in-iran-source-new-york-times/#respond Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:27:54 +0000 /?p=580 U.S. Senator (D-Florida) Bill Nelson has written to the editors of The New York Times urging them not to forget to highlight the cases of American citizens imprisoned in Iran:

“Free Maziar Bahari“(editorial, Sept. 9) rightly calls for an end to the unjust imprisonment of Maziar Bahari, the Canadian documentary filmmaker and Newsweek correspondent held since June by the Iranian authorities in their infamous Evin Prison…

Meanwhile, an Iranian-American scholar, Kian Tajbakhsh, remains imprisoned and has been denied consular access.

You are to be commended for calling on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to free Mr. Bahari. I would also say to Mr. Ahmadinejad: put an end to the suffering of the Levinsons, Bauers, Shourds, Fattals and Tajbakhshes.”

[Full letter]

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