The poet and civil rights activist Kamran Takouk has been temporarily released from Dizelabad Prison of Kermanshah, western Iran, on 17 January after spending five days in detention.
The activist has been released on 500 million Iranian Tomans – nearly 20,000 USD – bail.
The Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) had summoned and detained Takouk in Kermanshah on 12 January.
He was then taken to the detention centre of the security institution at its Nabi Akram Brigade base in Kermanshah.
According to a relative of Takouk, he was charged with “propaganda against the state” through interviews with Persian-language media abroad.
