3 Years Later, A Prisoner's Family Still Awaits His Return From Iran
Iranian authorities first imprisoned Emad Shargi, a U.S. citizen, in 2018. Shargi, a businessman, was released from prison, then rearrested in 2020. His family hopes that speaking out may help him.
Later this month, Bahareh Shargi will mark an anniversary: It will be three years that her husband has been stuck in Iran.
Iranian authorities first imprisoned Emad Shargi, a U.S. citizen, on April 23, 2018. Though they eventually released him on bail, they did not allow him to leave the country and later returned him to Tehran's Evin prison. Now his family hopes that speaking out may help him.
His wife discussed his case at the Washington, D.C., home where they raised two daughters. She sat on their concrete back porch,
