Apr 29, 2018

The head of Iran's reformist newspaper Shargh was freed Sunday, a day after being arrested over a report on "prostitution" in a northeastern city that angered

residents, Iranian media said.

Mehdi Rahmanian, the director of the newspaper, was released in the afternoon after paying bail of 500 million rials ($9,000 dollars), the ILNA news agency reported.

The courts had summoned him "after a complaint by a group of residents of the Shahid Rajai neighbourhood of Mashhad," the semi-official ISNA news agency reported, quoting the city's deputy prosecutor Hassan Heydari.

"The newspaper had described some of the district's women as prostitutes."