After couple of months, Three South Azerbaijani activists were freed with unusual bails
Savalan Sesi (Translated by Oyrenci):
Today, 27th February, three south Azerbaijani political prisoners including Saeid Matinpour, human rights activist and journalist, Jalil Ghanilou, journalist, and Alireza Matinpour, activist of Azerbaijani culture, were freed from Evin prison with 500,000 USD, 80,000 USD, and 100,000 USD bails respectively.
Mr. Saeid Matinpour from 25 May 2007, Jalil Ghanilou from 26 May 2007, and Alireza Matinpour from 28 August 2007 had been detained by Iranian intelligent services in north-western city of Zanjan and had been transferred to the Evin prison.
These three prisoners have passed more than half of their detention in sporadic cells of the section 209 of Evin prison under vision and torture of Iranian intelligent services. Worthy to say, they were not allowed to access to any advocatory in this time period.
From the other side, according to the received news, bail amount of Mr. Behrouz Safari and his wife has been changed to 120,000 USD and 80,000 USD respectively. Iranian official asked their family to prepare mentioned bails to free them.
Oyrenci-News congratulates freedom of South Azerbaijani prisoners in Zanjan to Azerbaijan nation, and hopes other Azerbaijani prisoners also be freed as soon as possible.
