Editor’s note: Journalist Mahdi Hossein-Zadeh was released from Evin Prison on July 5, 2011, after serving about one year in prison.
Mahdi Hossein-Zadeh, a journalist for the economic section of the reformist newspaper Hambastegy, was arrested in mid-June, according to Mouj Azadi, a reformist news website.
Hossein-Zadeh was being held at Tehran's Evin Prison, where his family had been allowed two visits, the site reported. He is the former editor-in-chief of the newspaper Tawsu'a and also worked for Etemad e Melli, the newspaper owned by defeated presidential candidate Mahdi Karroubi. He faced espionage allegations in late year, according to Mowjcamp, a news Web site supportive of the defeated presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi.