The journalist was released in Iran
Last year imprisonment Iranian journalist Keyvan Samimi was released. It is in May 2019 protest was detained for his participation in the action.
According to the reformist “Sharq” newspaper on January 1, Samimi is from Tehran 20He was released from Semnan prison, located 0 km east. What about the 73-year-old journalist who is a member of the Council of Religious Nationalists free has not been announced.
Last year, Samimi was sentenced to two years in prison and sent to Evin prison in Tehran. It is May day in 2019 of parliament in front of protest He was found guilty of “assembly and collaboration against the state” due to his participation in the action.
Although he was temporarily released in February due to his health, three months later national He was sent to Semnan on charges of harming security.
After being sent to prison, Samimi was charged with conspiracy and conspiracy in August. He at the beginning of the year imprisonment writer Bektaş Abti’s death “conspiracy” he called.
In December, it is reported that he sent a message of support for the ongoing protests in the country from prison. Protests have been going on in Iran since mid-September. 22 years old Mahsa Amini died after allegedly being detained for not tying the hijab properly, across the country protest caused actions.
Human rights groups 62 as a result of the authorities’ violent suppression of protests child they report that 500 people were killed.
In the Islamic Republic of Samimin imprisonment is believed to be the oldest journalist. He is the editor-in-chief of “Nama” magazine, “Iran He is the editor of Farda magazine.
When he was arrested again in May 200 civil and political by signing an active statement, they noted that Iran’s justice, security and political the government will be responsible.