Released on bail March 2007
Allowed to leave Iran December 2007

Mehrnoushe Solouki, a filmmaker and graduate student at the Université de Québec à Montréal (Canada), came to Iran in December 2006 in order to film a documentary on the burial rites of religious minorities with the permission of The Iranian Ministry of Islamic Culture and Guidance. In the process of researching the documentary Solouki stumbled upon a mass grave of regime opponents summarily executed in 1988. In February 2007, Solouki was arrested by five armed men and placed in Evin prison. She was released from prison when her parents posted bail of 85,000 Euros on March 28, 2007—but authorities confiscated her French passport and banned her from returning to France.  On November 17, 2007 she underwent a closed door trial in Tehran, was accused of “intent of committing propaganda” against the Iranian regime, but the trial was adjourned to an undetermined date. She is also suffering from wounds received in a suspicious accident in which she was knocked down by a motorcyclist on July 29, 2007. See her campaign website:

www.freesolouki.org