Dr. Ali Arab-Mazar, a university professor and an economic advisor to Mir Hossein Mousavi, was released from Evin prison on Wednesday night, 18 August 2010.
According to Kaleme news portal, Dr Arab-Mazar was released from Evin on $200,000 after several months of temporary detention. Arab-Mazar was arrested on 28 December 2009 and was confined in solitary for 3 months.
Dr Arab-Mazar was a colleague of Mir Hossein Mousavi during his presidency and a close friend of him during his 20 years of silence. He has spent the last 20 years teaching as a faculty of Allameh Tabatabaei University and tried to expand the economic point of view in the university with a scientific approach.