Kurdish journalist and writer Iraj Ebadi has been released on bail yesterday evening after four days in detention.
Security forces arrested Ebadi at his home in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, on 7 November.
They searched the journalist’s house and confiscated some of his personal belongings.
Ebadi, 73, is the owner and editor of the weekly Lutkah and a retired writer and teacher.
Security agencies in Sanandaj had summoned him several times in the past few years.