[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 147 (Tuesday, September 13, 2022)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E918]
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          EXPRESSING CONCERN ABOUT THE WELFARE OF EMAD SHARGI

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                       HON. ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON

                      of the district of columbia

                    in the house of representatives

                      Tuesday, September 13, 2022

  Ms. NORTON. Madam Speaker, I rise to express concern about the 
welfare of Emad Shargi, a longtime resident of the District of Columbia 
who has been unjustly and inhumanely detained in Iran since 2018.
  While visiting his wife's family in Iran, Mr. Shargi was arrested in 
the middle of the night by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and 
forcefully taken to the notorious Evin Prison, where he was held in 
solitary confinement and intensely interrogated for eight months. He 
was then released and cleared of the fabricated charges but was denied 
the return of his travel documents and banned from leaving the country. 
In November 2020, he was sentenced, without a trial, to 10 years in 
prison on fabricated charges. He is in Evin Prison. His family and I 
are concerned about his well-being.
  I call upon the State Department to prioritize the immediate release 
of Emad Shargi and to do everything possible to bring him home safely.

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