Poet/journalist released after multiple arrests

Keyvan Mehregan, the Iranian poet, joualist and filmmaker, was released from Evin Prison on Wednesday May 11.

Keyvan Mehregan

Mehregan’s wife, Afsaneh Parchekani, reports that the prosecutor and the judge agreed to a conditional release for her husband, who had been on a furlough.

Mehregan was arrested last September to serve out a one-year sentence in coection with his joualistic activities with the Shargh daily.

In 2011, he was sentenced to one year in jail and a five-year ban from joualism for the charge of “propaganda against the regime”.

Since the 2009 election protests, which led to wave after wave of a widespread crackdown on joualists, Mehregan has been arrested and released on bail on several occasions.