Journalist Mahsa Hekmat was arrested with her father and journalist Ali Hekmat in 2010 and told by interrogators to pressure her father into giving a confession. The charges against her were never specified.
Name: Mahsa Hekmat
Career: Wrote for Etemad and Neshat newspapers.
Charges: Unknown
Mahsa Hekmat was arrested with her father Ali Hekmat, the editor-in-chief of the banned newspaper Khordad, and a member of the Iranian Society for Defense of Media Freedom, on January 1, 2010. She was released on bail on January 11.
She was not told of the charges against her or given any information on her father, who suffers from a serious heart condition. Two weeks after their arrest, Mahsa Hekmat met with their lawyer, Nemat Ahmadi, who informed her that her father was in Cell Block 209 of Evin Prison in a cell with five other prisoners.
It is thought she was arrested and interrogated in order to pressure her father into making a confession.
This is part of IranWire’s series Crime: Journalism, a portfolio on the legal and political persecution of Iranian journalists and bloggers, published in both Persian and English.
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