Soheil Asefi is an Iranian journalist in Berlin. He left Iran three years ago after a ten- year professional experience in major Iranian media outlets. He had been in prison and was released on bail.   He came to Germany as the guest of the City of Nuremberg under the project "Writers in Exile" funded by the German Pen Center. Since then he has been writing for local German newspapers.  He is the recipient of the Hermann Kasten award in Germany.