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Obama Statement on the Release of Haleh Esfandiari

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) today released the following statement on the release of Haleh Esfandiari from an Iranian Prison. Esfandiari has been unjustly detained in Iran since May 2007. In July, Obama called on Mostafa Rahmani, the Director of the Iranian Interest Section in Washington, for her immediate release.

“I welcome the news of Haleh Esfandiari's release. Her arrest and incarceration were fundamentally unjust, and the suggestion that she owed bail for her release deepens that injustice. Nevertheless, we eagerly await Haleh's safe and quick return home to the United States so that she can be reunited with her family, and urge the Iranian government to free other Iranian-Americans who are unjustly detained.”