Man dies after being detained on arrival in US by CBP...

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The three-year absence apparently caught the eye of someone at Customs and Border Protection at Dulles, because “legal permanent residents” are supposed to be, well, residents. They took the Sarreshtehs into the back and began to question them. According to Sakineh Sarreshteh, this involved a great deal of shouting and intimidating in English, which neither understood. The detention and interrogation lasted for more than five hours, with their confused family waiting elsewhere in the terminal, and it seemed to stagger Daryoush Sarreshteh. He emerged just before midnight, pale and fearful, his wife said.

Two days later, he suffered what appears to be a sudden heart attack and died in his daughter’s home in Falls Church. His family believes the interrogation by the Customs officers killed him.

“They took him from us,” Sakineh Sarreshteh said the other day, speaking through her daughter, Sepideh Sarreshteh. She said she believes the forceful interview was fatal, “because of the five hours of stress. He’s not going to come back. Please don’t do this to other parents and innocent people.”

Customs officials don’t believe they acted inappropriately.

“Customs and Border Protection empathizes with the grief this family is feeling toward the untimely loss of Mr. Sarreshteh,” spokesman Stephen Sapp said. “We wish to assure them that Mr. Sarreshteh’s admissibility review was of a routine nature, and that CBP strives to treat all travelers with respect and in a professional manner.”

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They treated them like dogs,” said Sapideh Sarreshteh, a nurse who lives in Falls Church with her 13-year-old daughter. “And they killed my Dad.”

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-state-of-nova/post/iranian-national-daryoush-sarreshteh-73-dies-two-days-after-intense-questioning-at-dulles/2012/12/18/74df5da8-4888-11e2-b6f0-e851e741d196_blog.html