56. Auf Kaution freigelassen

RADIO FARDA ARTICLE ON THE RELEASE OF FATEME AND MEHDI

Mehdi Moosavi and Fateme Ekhtesari, two Iranian poets who have been kept in the Evin prison since last December, were released on Tuesday evening by a 200 million Tomans bail (about 500 000 SEK, 57.000 €), one of their relatives told Radio Farda.

He/she told Radio Farda that during this time they have been in the custody of the Revolutionary Guard’s intelligence sector and kept in solitary confinement in the Evin prison.

Their were arrested on the 6th of December 2013, two days after their passports were confiscated at the Imam Khomeini Airport when they wanted to leave the country.

Their arrest was not made public by media until 20th of December when “Kaleme” website, a news agency connected to Iranian reformists, wrote a report based on their sources information saying they poets were kept in section A-2 of Evin prison, a section under the Revolutionary Guard’s control.

The accusations against them has not been public until today, when sources close to Mehdi Moosavi and Fateme Ekhtesari say that they are being charged with “ conspiring against national security, having connections with foreign media and with artist members of opposition groups which operate from abroad”.

According to these sources they have to answer to these accusation in court, but it seems the time of the trial remains unclear.

Some of Moosavi’s poems were sang by Iranian singer Shahin Najafi, from which “Baed Az To” and “Momayez Sefr” of the the album “Hich Hich Hich” can be mentioned.

Some of Mehdi Moosavi’s and Fateme Ekhtesari’s works have not got a publishing permit in Iran and Moosavi’s last post on his weblog contains some criticism about the matter.