(Guardian-UK) Saeed Kamali Dehghan - Peyman Aref, a student of political science at Tehran University, was sentenced in March 2010 to a year in jail and 74 lashes for writing an "insulting" letter to Iranian President Ahmadinejad. The lashing was carried out hours before his release from Tehran's notorious Evin prison when he completed his jail sentence on Sunday. In a letter to the president during his 2009 election campaign, Aref attacked Ahmadinejad for his crackdown on students who had been politically active at university. Aref said after his release that his crime was that he refused to begin his letter with the formal greeting "Salam" as a sign of protest.
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