Last Update
June 15, 2020
Organisation
Unknown
Gender
Female
Ethnic Group
Unknown
Religoius Group
Muslim
Province
Tehran
Occupation
Journalist
Sentence
Unknown
Status
Released
Institution investigating
Ministry of Intelligence
Charges
Unknown
Mahsa Hekmat Released
The charges against her were never specified.
Mahsa Hekmat was arrested with her father, the editor-in-chief of the banned newspaper Khordad, and a member of the Iranian Society for Defense of Media Freedom, on January 1st 2010. She was released on bail on January 11th. She was not told of the charges against her or given any information on her father, who suffers from a serious heart condition.
Two weeks after their arrest, Mahsa Hekmat met with their lawyer, Nemat Ahmadi, who informed her that her father was in Cell Block 209 of Evin Prison in a cell with five other prisoners. It is thought she was arrested and interrogated in order to pressure her father into making a confession.