Iran Blocks Its Top Poet From International Travel
"Last week, as she was about to board a flight to Paris, police seized the passport of Simin Behbahani, who is 82 and nearly blind. Behbahani was interrogated all night long and then sent home -- without her passport. ... Neither the police nor the Revolutionary Court has asserted any legal basis for taking her passport." NPR 03/19/10

Posted March 19, 2010 07:27 AM