Iran frees four journalists, professor: report

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Source: France24

An Iranian opposition supporter gestures next to a burning police motorcycle set on fire during clashes with security forces in Tehran in 2009. Four reformist journalists and a professor detained after last year's disputed presidential poll in Iran that sparked anti-government protests were freed on bail on Sunday, ILNA news agency said. AFP - Four reformist journalists and a professor detained after last year's disputed presidential poll in Iran that sparked anti-government protests were freed on bail on Sunday, ILNA news agency said.

It said journalists Abdolreza Tajik, Mashallah Shamsolvaezin, Mohammad Javad Mozafar, who is also a prisoners rights activist, and Behrang Tonkaboni, chief editor of a cultural magazine, were freed from Tehran's Evin prison.

A retired university professor, Mohammad Sadeq Rabani, was also released after posting bail, the agency said.

It said they were rounded up after the Shiite holy day of Ashura on December 27 when the opposition took to the streets as part of a series of protests over the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last June


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