GVF — An Iranian activist and journalist Saeed Razavi Faghih has been arrested after returning to Tehran’s Imam Khomeini airport from France.

Sources told the Green Voice of Freedom that former student activist Saeed Razavi Faghih was detained after returning from Paris where he had been studying for seven years.

Razavi Faghih is currently being held in Evin prison.

The activist is also a former member of the Office for Fostering Unity (Daftar-e Tahkim-e Vahdat), a leading student organisation in Iran.

Razavi Faghih was detained in January 2009 while on a brief visit to Iran. He spent sixteen days in prison after which he was released on bail. He was later barred from leaving the country and tried in absentia which resulted in a four-year jail-term and as well as 74 lashes for charges such as “propaganda against the state,” taking part in “illegal” gatherings and insulting the leader Ali Khamenei.

The journalist has worked with a number of reformist publications such as Sobhe Emruz, Bahar, Bonyan, Yase No, Vaghaye Etefaghiye and Dowrane Emruz.

Source : The Green Voice of Freedom