© Press TVShahrzad Mir-Qolikhan
In a Press TV documentary titled "Memories of a Witness: Inside US Federal Prisons," in which she recounts her ordeal, Mir-Qolikhan, now 36, said she would have been treated more appropriately were she a real criminal.
"If you are a criminal, you are well treated in the US Department of Justice," she said.Mir-Qolikhan, a mother of twin girls, said she was put in shackles and chains before being taken from prison to courtroom.
She said prison guards treated her in a humiliating manner, asking her to bend so that they could see "everywhere" in her body.
Mir-Qolikhan said her family in Iran learnt about her "arrest" through US news outlets which allegedly said she had been detained on charges of attempting to smuggle night vision goggles to Iran.
She said she was offered "political asylum" in the US in exchange for persuading her former husband to leave Iran so that he could be caught by American secret agents.
Her former husband, Mahmoud Seif, had allegedly tried to export night-vision goggles to Iran from Austria. In an earlier episode of the program, Mir-Qolikhan explained that she had accompanied Seif to Austria where she served as his interpreter in 2007.
According to Mir-Qolikhan, she was arrested in the Austrian capital of Vienna based on a request from the US government and was held in a dreaded detention center in the Austrian capital for 28 days before she was released when the US government failed to provide any evidence of wrongdoing against her.
In the US, she was detained and sentenced to five years in prison by a Florida federal court in the absence of her husband.
Comment: Well. U.S. Prisons are described about how you would expect. What is interesting here is the manipulation and lies used by the government to entrap her, to arrest her, and then railroad her through the system.
The lesson to be learned here: NEVER TRUST A GOVERNMENT. If any government official tells you something, you can almost guarantee it is a lie.