Mehrnoush Solouki an Iranian-French citizen who had permanent residency in Canada finally was released and since January 18 she has been back in Paris to her family.
She traveled to Tehran in late 2006 to research a documentary about the burial rites of Iran’s religious minorities. But when she accidentally stumbled upon a mass grave of regime opponents summarily executed in 1988, she was quickly thrown in prison. She spent a month at Evin in solitary confinement and released on $124,000 bail. She was in trial on charges that included making antigovernment propaganda and endangering national security but at the end, under pressure of “Reporters Without Borders”, Iranian judiciary just fined around $2,000 for her activities!
Because she was dual national and had support from overseas, they couldn't kill her inside of prison like recent death of Ebrahim Lotfollahi and Zahra Bani Yaghoub. Well, the UN pressure on Iran after Zahra Kazemi's death in prison taught Islamic fundamentalist that their actions won't go unnoticed specially if people have connections in overseas. Unfortunately manytimes people get killed by authorities inside of prison and nobody notice!
Solouki has some facial injuries from an unknown assailant attack in Tehran which required four separate operations but the memories of her imprisonment are most haunting than her facial injuries pain. she said I heard the cries and yelling of other women prisoners, I thought that they were terrorists, but when I asked about it, the answer was that they were women activists arrested during the ceremony of March 8 (International Women's Day). I couldn't tell whether this answer was tragic or comic. I have heard some things about Guantanamo Bay -- that terrorists are kept there, But I can’t believe there could be a place in the world with so many students, intellectuals, writers, and women's rights activists (Evin prison)."
Solouki crime was taking film from a Cemetery which contains a mass grave of regime opponents executed in the summer and fall of 1988. How many people were buried there has never been established.
Solouki is free and I am happy for her. Now my question is, how about people in Iran who don't have two passports and some connections in overseas? is this sequel is gonna stop one day?
Solouki has some facial injuries from an unknown assailant attack in Tehran which required four separate operations but the memories of her imprisonment are most haunting than her facial injuries pain. she said I heard the cries and yelling of other women prisoners, I thought that they were terrorists, but when I asked about it, the answer was that they were women activists arrested during the ceremony of March 8 (International Women's Day). I couldn't tell whether this answer was tragic or comic. I have heard some things about Guantanamo Bay -- that terrorists are kept there, But I can’t believe there could be a place in the world with so many students, intellectuals, writers, and women's rights activists (Evin prison)."
Solouki crime was taking film from a Cemetery which contains a mass grave of regime opponents executed in the summer and fall of 1988. How many people were buried there has never been established.
Solouki is free and I am happy for her. Now my question is, how about people in Iran who don't have two passports and some connections in overseas? is this sequel is gonna stop one day?
Her story in http://freesolouki.org/
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