SHAHR-E KORD, Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari Province A journalist and author, Taqi Rahmani, jailed on Monday in this southwestern city on charges of insulting top officials, was freed on a Rls.20 million bail Tuesday evening.
Rahmani was in temporary detention pending the resolution of a complaint filed against him in the revolutionary court of the province.
He is charged with insulting top national officials in a speech he delivered to students of a medical school in the provincial capital on April 25.
Rahmani has been freed temporarily after posting a Rls.20 million bail, his defense lawyer Mohammad-Ali Jedari Foroughi said.
Before leaving the jail, Rahmani insisted he had "in no way insulted the high-ranking officials." The next hearing in the case is slated for September 24.
Rahmani was writing for Iran-e Farda, a monthly paper suspended along with several others earlier this year on orders of the press court.
(IRNA)