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Solouki boarded an Iran Air flight from Tehran that was due to land in Paris on Friday 18 January, according to the AFP News agency.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
In December 2006, Mehrnoushe Solouki arrived in Tehran to shoot a documentary about the burial rites of Iran’s religious minorities, Radio Free Europe has said. The authorities had prior knowledge of her planned activities - Solouki was granted a research license by the Iranian Ministry of Islamic Culture and Guidance and the authorities were told in advance of the locations where she wanted to film.
When she stumbled upon a mass grave of regime opponents summarily executed in 1988, Solouki was suddenly thrown into Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, accused of harbouring ‘presumed intentions’ to produce anti-establishment propaganda. According to Radio Free Europe, Solouki says the authorities must have thought that she intended to make a film critical of the mass executions, which took place in the summer and fall of 1988. She complained of being held in inhumane conditions, sleeping on the floor of a jail cell and being subjected to daily interrogations. She was released after about a month, but authorities confiscated her French passport, barring her exit from the Islamic Republic. URGENT
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