He also maintains a blog titled Rah Mardom, "Voice of the People." Hailing from Bushehr, Hafari is also a theater director and actor. Goverment Relations: On April 8, 2008, the authorities arrested Jafari, who was accused of "divulging information aboard" and "espionage," and seized his computer equipment, which allegedly held pictures of a worker's protest in Bushehr. He was released on April 24, 2008, but on December 6, 2008, a court sentenced him to five months in prison on charges of anti-government propaganda and threatening national security. On March 18, 2009, he was released from Bushehr prison on a payment of 50 million toman (about 40,000 euros) in bail.