Jila Baniyaghoob, a 2009 winner of the IWMF Courage in Journalism Award, was released from Iran’s Evin prison around 11 p.m. local time on Aug. 19.
Baniyaghoob was arrested in June while covering the post-election protests in Iran. A freelance reporter and editor-in-chief of the Web site Kanoon Zanan Irani (Focus on Iranian Women), Baniyaghoob, speaking from Tehran, told the IWMF that she was freed on bail. Baniyaghoob’s husband, journalist Bahaman Ahamadi Amoee, remains in prison.