Amnesty International
Iranian filmmaker
Keywan Karimi was released from Tehran’s Evin prison on 19 April
2017. He had been imprisoned since 23 November 2016. Keywan Karimi was a
prisoner of conscience.
Iranian filmmaker
Keywan Karimi, a member of Iran’s Kurdish minority, was released on 19 April
2017 after spending nearly five months in prison. According to an interview
given by his lawyer, Amir Raeisian, to the Saat24 (24 Hours) news website on 19
April 2017, Keywan Karimi was released after the Office of the Prosecutor and
Branch 54 of the Court of Appeal in Tehran agreed to grant him a conditional
release. He will be under probation until the end of October 2017. His flogging
sentence of 223 lashes can be enforced at any time and his five-year suspended
prison sentence remains in place.
