Mahmud Shariari
JAILED FOR A VIDEO
IRAN
A former national radio and TV presenter now very active on social media, Mahmud Shariari was arrested on 14 April on a charge “publishing false information about the coronavirus” after he criticized the government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis and, in particular, posted a video seen by hundreds of thousands of Iranians that referred to a cover-up of information about the spread of the virus. According to his family, he was transferred in early May from Tehran’s Evin prison to a section in Madaien Hospital that is reserved for Covid-19 patients.
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