Amir Hossein Moradi and Ali Younesi transferred to the general ward of Evin Prison
29-June-2022
Category: Prisoners
28-June-2022
Newsgroup: Prisoners –
Breathing in Confinement: On Saturday, June 25, 2022, Amir Hossein Moradi and Ali Younesi, detained students at Sharif University of Technology, were transferred from Ward 209 of Evin Prison to the prison’s general ward.
According to “Breathing in Confinement”, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, Amir Hossein Moradi and Ali Younesi, 2 detained students at Sharif University of Technology, were transferred to the general ward of Evin Prison after spending 808 days in detention.
Mostafa Nili, the students’ lawyer, wrote on social media: “Ali Younesi and Amir Hossein Moradi were transferred from Ward 209 to the general ward of Evin Prison last night. The two young students had been in detention for more than 26 months in harsh conditions of security cells. The person in charge of the case had demanded from the beginning that they should not be released from ward 209 until a final verdict is issued, and the same happened in reality.”
Ali Younesi, a computer engineering student, and Amir Hossein Moradi, a physics student at Sharif University of Technology, were arrested by the agents of the Ministry of Intelligence on April 10, 2020, and transferred to ward 209 of Evin Prison, the Ministry’s detention center. The students are said to have been arrested by plainclothes agents while being beaten and without being presented an arrest warrant.
The second hearing in the case of the two imprisoned students was held on January 25, 2022, and Mustafa Nili said at the time that their confessions, which had been broadcast by Fars News Agency closed to the Revolutionary Guards, had not been carried out in proper situation.
During the second year of the two students’ detention, Mustafa Nili called their continued detention “explicitly against the law.”
Ali Younesi, a computer engineering student, and Amir Hossein Moradi, a physics student at Sharif University of Technology, were arrested by the agents of the Ministry of Intelligence and held in solitary confinement for 59 days. The two were denied the right to counsel for about a year and, according to their families, were subjected to severe physical and psychological torture during their detention.
On Sunday, April 17, 2022, Mostafa Nili announced that the last hearing of the trial of Amir Hossein Moradi and Ali Younesi had been held on that day in Branch 29 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran, where their two other hearings also had been held on July 3, 2021 and January 25, 2022.
On May 5, 2020, Gholamhossein Esmaili, a spokesman for the Iranian judiciary, accused the students of collaborating with the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization.
It is worth mentioning that Amir Hossein Moradi is the winner of the silver medal of the 2017 National Astronomy Olympiad and Ali Younesi is the winner of the silver medal of the 2016 National Astronomy Olympiad as well as the gold medal of the 2017 Astronomy Olympiad. In addition, Ali Younesi has brought honor for Iran by winning a gold medal in the 12th World Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad held in China.