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They were temporarily released from Evin prison on the 9th day of the Iranian new year holiday, where they are serving an \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2019\/02\/05\/iran-environmentalists-flawed-trial\u0022\u003Eunjust\u003C\/a\u003E 6-year sentence for the charge of \u201ccooperating with the hostile state of the US.\u201d This is the first time authorities have granted Kashani and Khalegi a temporary release since the beginning of their imprisonment in January 2018.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe three activists were originally arrested along with five other members of the foundation on accusations that of \u201cusing environmental projects as a cover for espionage.\u201d One of the defendants, Kavous Seyed Emami\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2018\/02\/13\/iran-investigate-suspicious-deaths-detention-release-activists\u0022\u003E, died in detention\u003C\/a\u003E under suspicious circumstances in February of 2018. Instead of conducting a transparent investigation into Seyed Emami\u2019s death, authorities harassed his family and placed his wife under a travel ban for one and a half years. During the trial that began in January 2019 and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2019\/02\/05\/iran-environmentalists-flawed-trial\u0022\u003Ewas halted several times\u003C\/a\u003E, Niloufar Bayani, another member of the group, alleged that as she was subjected by authorities to psychological torture and was coerced to make false confessions. Authorities sentenced her to 10 years in prison.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn February 2020, BBC Persian also \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/persian\/iran-features-51549394\u0022\u003Epublished\u003C\/a\u003E a detailed account of Bayani\u2019s 1,200 hours of interrogations based on the letters she had written from prison. 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