Iranian Azerbaijani lawyer and human rights defender, Saleh Kamrani was released on 18 September 2006. He had been held at Section 209 of Evin prison since 14 June 2006 and was subjected to psychological torture as well as denied access to his medication for a heart condition. Five days earlier, on 13 September 2006, he had been sentenced to one year’s imprisonment, suspended for five years, under Article 500 of the Islamic Penal Code of Iran which relates to ‘propaganda against the system’.