Mehdi Hashemi Released from Prison

Mehdi Hashemi, the son of former President Hashemi Rafsanjani, was released from prison on bail. Hashemi was arrested in September when he returned from a three-year exile in Britain. (Saham News/EAWorldView, 16 December)

File photo: Mehdi Hashemi (IRNA)

Mehdi Hashemi Arrested

Mehdi Hashemi, the son of Iran’s former president Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, was arrested on Monday after returning from self-exile. Hashemi is accused of “inciting” post-election unrest in 2009. Hashemi was taken to the notorious Evin prison, where her sister, former member of Majlis Faezeh Hashemi, was taken after her arrest on Sunday on charges of “spreading anti-state propaganda.”

Photo credit: Mehdi Hashemi being read his charges before taken to Evin prison in Tehran. 24 September 2012. (Fars News Agency)