NCRI – Two poets and a documentary filmmaker are being prosecuted in Iran on charges of ‘propaganda against the regime and cooperation with an apostate singer living abroad’.
A lawyer for the poets – named as Mehdi Mousavi and Fatemeh Ekhtessari. The name of the third accused has not been announced – told the state-run Tasnim news agency: “About a year ago, my clients published a collection of poems. One of these poems was then taken by a singer living abroad.”
The poets were arrested in December 2013 by agents of the Revolutionary Guards intelligence service after speaking in literary meetings in Tehran and other cities.
They were accused of ‘participation in negative propaganda against the Islamic Republic’ after writing poems which cited the 2009 anti-regime public protests.