7 February 2005 -- Prominent Iranian dissident cleric Hassan Yusefi-Eshkevari was today reported to have been released from jail after serving four years of a seven-year prison sentence.
Yusefi-Eshkevari was arrested in 2000 after attending a controversial conference in Berlin on Iran's future.
He was originally defrocked and branded an apostate, a capital offense in Iran, but was later sentenced to seven years' imprisonment after being found guilty of insulting religious sanctities and spreading lies.
(AFP)
He was originally defrocked and branded an apostate, a capital offense in Iran, but was later sentenced to seven years' imprisonment after being found guilty of insulting religious sanctities and spreading lies.
(AFP)
