Rasoul Hoveyda, who was being held in ward 8 of Evin prison due to inability to provide dowry, after joined the collective hunger strike of Dervish prisoners, overnight released from prison.

A non-political and non-Dervish prisoner, Rasoul Hoveyda who was in the financial section of Evin prison where the two of jailed rights activists of Gonabadi Dervishes are there too , after submitting a letter announced that will go on a hunger strike to express his sympathy with Gonabadi Dervishes, once was threatened with transfer to solitary confinement and Judicial deal in order to break his hunger strike. But after he defended his decision to support Dervishes, released abruptly.

Rasoul Hoveyda had declared that he joins his voice with the Dervishes’s voice for justice and reparation and will continue his hunger strike until his loved ones (Dervishes)’s demand are substantially met.
Mr. Hoveyda expressed surprise at his sudden release and stated that he is still unaware of the exact cause of his freedom and the only possibility is that, the Court has rapidly found that distress had been suffered by him. Because the dowry has not been paid in cash and also there is the demand for dowry by demander.