According to Human Rights House of Iran, Peyman Aref who had recently been released after serving his second one-year prison term went to the grave of Neda AghaSoltan this past Sunday. Fellow activists Assal Esmailzadeh and Sharar Konour Tabrizi accompanied him to the cemetery where all three were subsequently arrested and released after one day.When the three activists went to Evin Court to process their court papers, the other two were released but Peyman Aref was detained and transferred to prison for undisclosed reasons.
Peyman Aref was arrested twice during the events following the contested presidential elections of 2009 for which he served two one-year sentences behind bars and received 74 lashes for insulting the president. This political activist was released on October 10, 2011 at the end of his one-year sentence, after the flogging sentence was carried out on him.
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