Sunday August 27th, 2011 – Kaleme reports that a number of political prisoners were released from prison on the eve of Eide Fetr [Muslim holiday celebrating the end of Ramadan].
According to Kaleme, the following political prisoners were reportedly released from prison last night:
1.Ehsan Abadeh Tabrizi
2.Laleh Hasanpour
3. Zahra Jabari
4. Keyvan Farzin
5. Amir Aslani
6. Mohsen Ghamin
7. Mohammad Pourabdollah
8. Arsalan Abadi
9. Nazanin Hassan Nia
10.Susan Tabiyanian
11. Akran Heydarian
12. Sama Shamloo
13. Fatemeh Darvish
14. Ali Behzadian Nejad
15. Hamid Reza Nojoumi
16. Abolfazl Ghasemi
17. Koroush Ghasemi
18. Artin Ghazanfari
19. Gholam Reza Azadi
20. Meysam Roudaki
21. Amir Hossein Ghanbari
22. Omid Sharifi Dana,
23. Behnam Ansari
24. Rouhollah Mirzakhani
25. Massoud Yazdchi
26. Mohsen Mokhtari
27. Sajad Moradi
Some of the aforementioned political prisoners such as Nazanin Hassan Nia were only weeks away from completing their prison sentences and were released a few weeks earlier than expected, while others such as Ehsan Abadeh Tabrizi who did not have a criminal record were afforded conditional release in accordance to Iranian law upon completion of half of their prison sentence.
The names of other political prisoners potentially released from prison will be published as more information becomes available in the next few days.
By banooyesabz
Source: Kaleme http://www.kaleme.com/1390/06/06/klm-70979/