According to a report from the Iran Human Rights Voice website, filmmaker and IDA member Mohammad Ehsani was recently freed from the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran after serving one year. He was one of four Iranians accused of attempting to "soft-topple" the Iranian regime. Ehsani, 34, had been sentenced to three years, and he had spent two months in solitary confinement. The three other defendents--Arash Alaei, former director of the International Institute for Education and research on Pulmonary Disease and Tuberculosis; Kamyar Alaei, a Ph.D. dancidate in health science; and Sylvia Hartouian, a reproductive specialist--remain in Evin Prison.
As previous reported on IDA's website, at the time of his arrest in July 2008, Ehsani had been working on a documentary about Iranian music, and much of his previous work has dealt with social issues in Iran. He is also a member of the Iranian Documenatry Filmmakers Society.