Dr. Haleh Esfandiari gave a press conference yesterday at the Wilson Center and spoke about her time in Evin Prison.  In this NPR story, she mentioned that although she did not see Kian in prison, he was able to send her books:

“We must have shared the same interrogator,” she said. “I saw the interrogator carrying five or six books and my eyes lit up and I said ‘Oh, English books! Whose are these?’ And he said, ‘Mr. Tajbaksh.’”

She said that Tajbaksh started lending her books — passing them through the guards — though she said she never talked to the guards about his case. Tajbaksh’s colleagues at the Open Society Institute say Iranian authorities have indicated he might be released soon on bail.