Haleh Esfandiari is the director of the Middle East program at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars in Washington D.C. She is the author or My Prison, My Home and Reconstructed Lives. In 2007, after being falsely accused of plotting against the Islamic Republic, Esfandiari spent 105 days in solitary confinement in Evin, Iran's most notorious prison. In this conversation with Maria Hinojosa, Esfandiari talks about her incarceration, Iran's women's movement and the future of her native country.
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