Mehdi Jalil-Khani, Blogger from Zanjan Was Arrested on January 18th and Formally Charged.

HRANA – Citizen’s Rights, Thoughts and Speech: Mehdi Jalil-Khani, writer, literary critic and freelance journalist from Zanjan was arrested on the morning of Monday, January 18th , after a raid by Ministry of Intelligence agents, and transferred to the Intelligence Office of the City of Zanjan.


The Thoughts and Speech unit of HRA reports that Mehdi Jalil-Khani, experienced journalist working with a number of newspapers and publications in Zanjan, was arrested after a raid by Intelligence Ministry agents who searched his house and confiscated his personal belongings. He was transferred to the Intelligence Office of Zanjan blind-folded and in handcuffs.


While in detention and after 24 hours of interrogation for charges of insulting the supreme leadership and agitation and unsettling of public opinion, he was formally charged in Investigation Branch # 4 of the Revolutionary Court of Zanjan and freed after pledging bail.


It should be noted that Mehdi Jalil-Khani, is the former editor of the Literature and Culture unit of the suspended weekly Mehre Zanjan, former chief editor of the banned magazine Ashragh and former member of the Board of Directors of the Literary Association of Ashragh, Zanjan. He is also the son of Gholam Hossein Jalil-Khani, a representative of the people of Zanjan in the Fifth Islamic Parliament