She’s home. Esha Momeni, a CSUN mass communications graduate student who was imprisoned and later under a travel ban in Iran, has returned to the United States. “I didn’t believe I was leaving until I got into the plane, they closed the plane’s door and started going,” Momeni, 29, said. She arrived on Tuesday. Momeni was imprisoned in October 2008 while working on her thesis project, charged with propagandizing against the regime. The Iranian-American student was released on bail Nov…. Read more

Grad student imprisoned in Iran A 28-year-old communications grad student working on her master’s degree thesis in Iran about the country’s women’s rights movement was arrested by Iranian police and detained without bail last week. Iranian-American grad student faces difficulties returning to U.S. Though Iranian officials announced that grad student Esha Momeni would be allowed to return to the United States after being released from a nearly a month in jail on bail, close friends disputed this report and said… Read more

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