A top adviser to Iran's defeated presidential candidate-turned opposition leader, Morteza Alviri, has been released on bail after four months in detention.
Alviri, who had been detained in the aftermath of the June 12 presidential election, was freed on Saturday, Mehr News Agency quoted an informed judiciary official as saying.
The former Tehran mayor was released after a bail of USD 200,000 was posted, Alviri's son told the Iranian Labor News Agency (ILNA).
On Thursday, Iranian Reformist journalist Mohammad Qouchani, who had also been arrested during the post-election events, was released from prison on bail.
Qouchani, one of the editor-in-chiefs of the banned Etemad-e-Melli newspaper, was freed on bail of USD 100,000.
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