Gholam-Hossein Esmaili who was speaking to reporters said the two students had linked up with the MEK. Posted on 05/09/2020 11:46:35 AM PDT by hassan.mahmoud
By: Hassan.Mahmoudi
Two of the most accomplished and internationally recognized students in Iran are among those arrested and tortured as the regime’s fear of an uprising escalates.
The Spokesman of Iran’s Judiciary on Tuesday admitted the arrest of two elite students from the Sharif University of Technology after detaining them for 26 days. Gholam-Hossein Esmaili who was speaking to reporters said the two students had linked up with the MEK.
Reciting a series of trumped-up charges, Esmaili alleged that the students – who were not named – had engaged in “diversionary actions” and were “attempting to carry out sabotage operations.” “Explosive devices used in sabotage operations were discovered when their homes were searched,” he said.
“Amid the Coronavirus, this was essentially a conspiracy by the enemies; they wanted to wreak havoc in the country, which was fortunately thwarted by the vigilance and timely action of intelligence ministry agents,” Esmaili added.
According to Human Right Monitor, It seems that the Judiciary spokesman is referring to the 20-year-old award-winning computer science student of Tehran’s Sharif Industrial University, Ali Younesi and another award-winning physics student, Amir-Hossein Moradi who were both arrested on April 10.
Amir Hossein Moradi disappeared and Ali Younesi was brought home in the evening of the same day, with injuries and torture marks. The family of Ali Younesi says he was assaulted and injured by the twelve security agents. After a few hours, his parents were taken away with him and interrogated for hours under pressure.
Ali Younesi who was the winner of the gold medal in the International Astronomy Olympiad in 2018 in China is twenty years old and a second-year computer science student at Tehran’s Sharif Industrial University.
Amir Hossein Moradi also won the Olympiad silver medal in 2017.
On May 6, the Human Right Monitor-Iran announced the names of 18 others, among the many who have been arrested, as follows: Mohammad Reza Ashrafi Samani, Isfahan Nahid Fat’halian, Tehran Kamran Rezaeifar, Tehran Sepehr Imam Jomeh, Tehran Parastoo Mo’ini, Tehran Zahra Safaei, Tehran Bijan Kazemi, Kuhdasht Forough Taghipour, Tehran Marzieh Farsi, Tehran Massoud Rad, Tehran Mohammad Mehri, Qom Somayeh Bidi, Karaj Mohammad Hassani, Karaj Rasool Hassanvand, Khorramabad Gholam Ali Alipour, Amol Mehran Gharabaghi, Behbahan Majid Khademi, Behbahan Saeed Rad, Semnan
HRM added that the National Council of Resistance – Iran (NCRI)’s leader emphasized that the detainees are subject to torture and face execution, as well as in danger of being exposed to Coronavirus, and urged the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the Human Rights Council, as well as the international human rights organizations to take urgent action to secure the release the detainees and to send international missions to visit the regime’s prisons and meet with these prisoners.
At the same time, the NCRI said in a statement, ” The clerical regime must publish the names of all the detainees and respect all their rights by the international conventions to which it is a party. Torture and ill-treatment of political prisoners are well-known practices of the regime. Since December 2017 the uprising, a significant number of prisoners have been murdered under torture. The regime maintains silence and engages in a cover-up about the fate of these prisoners. And when compelled to say anything, it claims they have committed suicide and killed themselves.”
Hassan Mahmoudi, social analyst, researcher, is an independent observer and commentator of Middle Eastern and Iranian affairs.
I know people who’ve been hospitalized by COVID.
I know small businees people who are facing ruin
Churches are closed - first time in US history
Iran didn’t do that to us China did
But our neocons can only talk about Iran Iran Iran (and Russia Russia Russia Russia).
Their zealotry for year after year wanting war with Iran - to follow up on our disastrous invasion of Iraq - has diverted us from real threats to our national security and the security of our families. And wasted $8 trillion of our tax dollars (or rather , money borrowed from China)
The neocons should shut up and go fight in the Middle East on their own. Then we can finally focus on America and America’s interests
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Are you willing to say that Iran is an enemy of freedom just like China?
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