Two student activists released from prison

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From Human Rights Activists in Iran:

Sabah Nasari and Hedayat Ghazali, two Kurdish students attending universities in Tehran, were released a few hours ago, after serving an 18 months sentence, from the Evin Prison.

Sabah Nasari, a graduate student in political science at Tehran University, and editor in chief of the student publication “Roojameh,”and education student Hedayat Ghazali of the Alameh Tabatabaie University, a member of the editorial board of the aforesaid publication, were charged with making propoganda against the government and participating in the unlawful student protests of July 13th 1999. The two were arrested by agents of the offices of intelligence in Sanandaj.

During the course of the investigation, these prisoners were transfered back and forth between the offices of the Ministry of Intelligence in Tehran and Sanandaj. After five postponements of the judicial process, the two students were sentenced in August/September 2008 to two years imprisonment by Judge Sadat of the 13th branch of the Revolutionary Court. The sentences were later commuted to one and half years.

During the course of their imprisonment, the two students went on hunger strikes on two separate occaisions, and due to unknown reasons were transfered to ward 209 of the Evin Prison. The two students were released from prison only a few hous ago.