Said Matinpour
Iranian journalist (born 1976)
Said Matinpour (born September 22, 1976 in Zanjan) is an Iranian national cultural activist, journalist and former political prisoner.
In 2009, he was sentenced to eight years in prison by the Tehran Revolutionary Court. During his imprisonment, Amnesty International, Reporters Without Borders and the Committee for the Protection of Journalists called journalist Said Matinpour a prisoner of conscience and demanded his unconditional release.
He was released on August 26, 2015.
About
Life and activities
Said Matinpour was born on September 22, 1976, in Zanjan. He graduated from Tehran University's Faculty of Philosophy. He worked in editorial offices of weekly magazines Omid-e Zanjan, Peyk-e Azer, Moj-e Bidari, Bahar-e Zanjan and Dilmaj printed both in Azerbaijan and Persian languages in Iran from 2005 to 2011. Yarpag newspaper covered the work of associations engaged in the teaching and promotion of Azerbaijani culture and the Azerbaijani Turkic language and published the works of local writers and poets.
Arrest
In 2003, after the Babek Castle Congress, he was arrested by Tabriz police and detained for two days. In 2004, after the Babek Castle Congress, he was detained by the police for one day in Ahar city.
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