Imprisoned in Iran. Imprisoned for their art.
Channel: Freemuse
Date: 07/06/2016

CORRECTION: As of 4 November 2016, Freemuse has learned that musician Yousef Emadi, despite being sentenced and summoned in the same case as musician Mehdi and his brother filmmaker Hossein Rajabian, was not imprisoned and currently remains at liberty according to Amnesty International and a Freemuse source. Based on multiple sources at the time, Freemuse first reported on 7 June 2016 that Emadi was imprisoned along with the Rajabian brothers. This information turned out to be incorrect and the text below has been corrected. Freemuse continues to campaign for the release of Mehdi and Hossein Rajabian.

For a link to the updated video to share, please click here:
https://youtu.be/56PpdbR0jtM

On 5 June 2016 musician Mehdi Rajabian and his brother, filmmaker Hossein Rajabian, were imprisoned for their art on a three-year sentence on charges of “insulting the sacred” and “propaganda against the state” through the production and promotion of underground music.

Please help us in getting the charges dropped against the two artists and freeing Mehdi and Hossein by sharing the video below and using the hashtag #ArtIsNotACrime on your social media profiles and with partners, colleagues and friends.

Mehdi Rajabian helped create this video after the artists were sentenced before they were jailed. 

Read the artists' letter from prison here: http://freemuse.org/archives/13035

For more on their story, click here: http://freemuse.org/archives/12865