Baha’i singer and composer Behnam Rouhani-Fard was released from prison on 3 October 2017 on bail after spending one month in solitary confinement.

Freemuse has learned that Iranian brothers, musician Mehdi Rajabian and filmmaker Hossein Rajabian, were temporarily released on bail on 22 June 2017.

Iranian filmmaker Keywan Karimi was released from Evin Prison on 19 April 2017 after serving nearly five months of a one-year sentence.

Artists & supporters of artistic freedom worldwide called for the release of 2 artists in a public letter sent to the newly re-elected Iranian president.

Artists & supporters of artistic freedom worldwide called for the release of 2 artists in a public letter sent to the newly re-elected Iranian president.

Center for Human Rights in Iran reported that music producers Mehdi & Hossein Rajabian returned to prison after their furlough request was denied.

New Iranian Culture & Islamic Guidance Minister Reza Salehi Amiri annoucned 10 films have been banned from entering a Tehran film festival in April 2017.

Musician Mehdi Rajabian and filmmaker Keyvan Karimi have been beaten and threatened by other inmates in Tehran's infamous Evin Prison.

Kurdish band Dayrak Khatoon was banned from performing at a festival in Kermanshah, in western Iran, due to the band including women who also sing solo.

Revolutionary Guards re-arrested Iranian writer Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee while on her way to visit her hospitalised husband.